smoker
smoker Lexical Profile
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• noun
A person who habitually smokes tobacco, such as in cigarettes, cigars, or pipes.
"The health clinic offers free counseling and nicotine replacement therapy to help any smoker who wants to quit."
An enclosed cooking apparatus designed to cook, cure, or flavor meat, fish, and other foods slowly at low temperatures using smoke from smoldering wood.
"He placed the seasoned beef brisket inside the backyard smoker for twelve hours over hickory wood chips."
A handheld bellows device used by beekeepers to puff cool smoke into a beehive in order to calm the bees during inspection or honey harvesting.
"Before lifting the top cover of the hive, the apiarist pumped the smoker a few times to keep the colony docile."
A railway carriage or compartment in which passengers are permitted to smoke tobacco.
"In the early twentieth century, travelers who wished to enjoy a pipe during the journey usually took seats in the rear smoker."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the 16th century from the verb 'smoke' (from Old English 'smoca') combined with the agentive suffix '-er', originally emerging alongside the introduction of tobacco smoking to Europe.