smoke-dry

American  

[smohk-drahy] / ˈsmoʊkˌdraɪ /

verb (used with object)

smoke-dried, smoke-drying

1. to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.

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verb (used without object)

smoke-dried, smoke-drying

1. to become dried by smoke.

   to be eaten as soon as it smoke-dries.

Etymology

Origin of smoke-dry

First recorded in 1695–1705

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Example Sentences

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smoke-dry smoke-dried smoke-drying

For lack of salt, they smoke-dry them, which always leaves an unpleasant taste, and the fish spoil easily.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

As for the fruit, ’tis better to beat it down from the tree, some little time before they fall off themselves; thus they will the better keep, or else you must smoke-dry them.

From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet

I won't half smoke-dry th' old beggar then!

From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall

At one point he admits to sleeping comfortably one night "with half-a-dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head".

From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2013

Nhamo gutted the little fish and smoke-dried them over her cook-fire.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Cringing, the old man pointed to a great shell that held water, and pushed towards the fire another shell in which were strips of smoke-dried fish.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Everybody is thin and smoke-dried at the end of a stormy winter,” declared Lady Carse.

From The Billow and the Rock by E.J. Wheeler

Child of the later days! thy words have broken A spell that long has bound these lungs of clay, For since this smoke-dried tongue of mine hath spoken, Three thousand tedious years have rolled away.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

This “under-curing” is not a question solely of the duration of smoke-drying, although probably the modern practice of curtailing the period has exerted a great influence.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

The Finnan Haddie, a species of haddock cured by smoke-drying at Montrose and Aberdeen.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

They hunted the cattle and preserved the meat, smoke-drying it in the Indian fashion.

From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills

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