The chimney of a steamboat or of a locomotive.
1844. “It is not a steamer, sir,” added the officer, “as she has neither paddle-wheels nor smokepipe, but decks apparently clean fore and aft, as our own.”—Watmough, ‘Scribblings and Sketches,’ p. 61 (Phila.).
1856. Objects are seen moving up and down the street not unlike the inverted “smoke pipe” of a steam car, propelled by as great a power and at an inconceivable velocity.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxi. 276 (June).
1857. The curling of the smoke from the smoke-pipes of a boat against the clear night air, often entertained me.—Knick. Mag., l. 559 (Dec.).
1861. Another [shot] passed between the smoke-stack and [the] walking-beam of the engine.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 215.
1862. A shell might [by chance] be thrown in such a manner as to fall into the smoke-pipe of the Merrimac or the Monitor.—Mr. James Dixon of Conn., U.S. Senate, March 28: Cong. Globe, p. 1425/1.
1869. The passengers were huddled about the smoke-stacks and fortified behind ventilators, and all were wrapped in wintry costumes, and looking sleepy and unhappy in the pitiless gale and the drenching spray.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ ch. v.
1876. Our engineers went to work at once to repair the smoke-stack, but it was late in the afternoon before it was in any kind of shape, and it was then considered too late to make a move.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ i. 355.
1878. The Chinese and other steerage passengers walked the deck, or stood around the smoke-stacks for warmth.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 401.
1884. If we had had a smoke-stack, and proper boiler fronts, and good engines, and a new crew, and many other things, how we would have made a smash of those fellows!—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ xii. 163.
