[SMOKE sb.]
1. A receptacle for smoke. rare–1.
1614. W. Barclay, Nepenthes, A 8. Not as the English abusers [of tobacco] do, which make a smoke-boxe of their skull.
2. techn. A chamber in a steam boiler between the flues and the chimney stack; in a locomotive placed at the base of the funnel.
1846. Penny Cycl., Suppl. II. 670/1. That construction of engine in which the cylinders are placed at the bottom of the smoke-box.
1855. Lardner, Mus. Sci. & Art, VI. 127. The tubes … through which the hot gases … and smoke pass from the fire-box to the smoke-box.
1897. H. Russell, in Pall Mall Mag., March, 354. The exceptional height of the smoke-box from the ground rendered it necessary to adopt a very dwarfed funnel.
attrib. 1855. Lardner, Mus. Sci. & Art, VI. 128. The smoke-box door, opening on hinges at the top.
1878. F. S. Williams, Midl. Railw., 652. The smoke-box door did not fit tight.
