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noun

Smoker n.

1.

One who dries or preserves by smoke.

2.

One who smokes tobacco or the like.

3.

A smoking car or compartment, such as a car on a train where smoking is allowed. (U. S.)

4.

A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. (Obsolescent.) "That evening A Company had a "smoker" in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp."

5.

An amateurish pornographic movie. (Colloq.)

black smoker, a vent at the bottom of the ocean, usually at a mid-ocean ridge, through which large quantities of water carrying minerals flow, producing a jet of fluid with the appearance of black smoke. The ocean water in crevices below the vent is heated to temperatures near 400° C, and dissolves quantities of metal salts, such as of copper, zinc, gold, and manganese. When the saturated mineral solutions exit the vent, cooling by contact with the ocean causes the metals to precipitate, mainly as sulfide or sulfate salts. Unusual forms of life such as tube worms have been found to live in the areas near black smokers.

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Etymology of 'Smoker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smoker" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a general movement of anxiety and curiosity. Presently the smoker, who had asked me where he was ...

— Prue and I • George William Curtis

... Indian should be no smoker himself and dislike the odour of tobacco, I tell him that if he objects, I will postpone my ...

— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman

... and would, the next morning, deliver a scene to the players, written upon the papers which had wrapped the tobacco, in which he so much delighted." It is not easy to conceive, unless Fielding's capacities as a smoker were unusual, that any large contribution to dramatic literature could have been made upon the wrappings of Virginia or Freeman's Best; but that his reputation for careless production was established among his ...

— Fielding - (English Men of Letters Series) • Austin Dobson

... the admitted maxim, that if smoking is accompanied by spitting, injury results to the smoker; and the reason assigned is, that the salival fluid, which should assist digestion, is in this manner dissipated, and taken from its office. But may not the habitual application of the narcotic influence ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, Number 490, Saturday, May 21, 1831 • Various

... a handsomely-carved meerschaum pipe. The king was an inveterate smoker, and, even if he didn't do anything more than nod his head when it was placed in his hand, he ought to have ...

— The Land of Mystery • Edward S. Ellis

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