Smoked

ppl. a. Also 7 smoakt, smoak’d, 8 smoaked. [f. SMOKE v. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Dried or cured by exposure to smoke; impregnated with smoke.

1603.  Dekker, Wonderfull Yeare, B ij b. For … some smoakt gallant, who at wit repines, To dry Tobacco with my holesome lines.

1648.  Hexham, II. Een Sore, a smoakt red Heering.

1700.  T. Brown, trans. Fresny’s Amusem. Ser. & Com., 117. The best smoak’d Beef in Christendom.

1747.  Wesley, Prim. Physick (1762), p. xix. Pickled or smoaked or salted Food.

1830.  M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., II. 233. Smoked provisions are … apt to disagree with some persons.

1883.  Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 370. Smoked Eels,… Smoked Plaice,… Smoked Herrings.

  2.  Obscured, made dark, by smoke.

1755.  B. Martin, Mag. Arts & Sci., 37. This small Telescope, in which I have put a smoaked Glass.

1819.  Shelley, Œdipus, I. 400. I’ll wager you will see them … With pieces of smoked glass.

1885.  Goodale, Physiol. Bot. (1892), 383. A slowly revolving cylinder covered with smoked paper.

  3.  Tainted or spoiled in taste through contact with smoke.

1761.  Colman, Prose on Sev. Occas. (1787), I. 123. The water is smoaked, the butter rank, the bread heavy.

1857.  Sir A. H. Elton, Below the Surface (1860), ix. 105. A cup of smoked coffee and a dubious egg.

  4.  Of a smoke-color. (Cf. SMOKE sb. 9 e.)

1827.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, II. 75, note. The Smoked Kangaroo, the gray of which is somewhat deeper.

1885.  Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 447. The shells usually present a dark colour about the edges, like that of ‘smoked pearl.’

1898.  Westm. Gaz., 18 Nov., 3/2. Dark brown fox fur, that which is called ‘smoked fox.’

  5.  With -down or -out: Exhausted or consumed by being smoked.

1859.  Dickens, Tale Two Cities, II. xvi. He put down his smoked-out pipe.

1904.  Benson, Challoners (1906), 76/2. Martin lit a cigarette from a smoked-down stump.