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

Example Sentences

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 Kendall, Ralph S.

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 Robertson, James Alexander

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 Nisbet, John