smoke around

smoke around

English

Alternative forms

• smoke round

Verb

smoke around (third-person singular simple present smokes around, present participle smoking around, simple past and past participle smoked around)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.
   • 1755, Joseph Warton, “The Revenge of America” in Robert Dodsley (ed.), A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: R. and J. Dodsley, Volume 4, p. 209,

     He broke his arrows, stampt the ground,

     To view his cities smoaking round.

   • 1762, James Macpherson, Fingal, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Book 1, pp. 12-13,

     Chief mixed his strokes with chief, and man with man; steel, clanging, sounded on steel, helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smoaks around.

   • 1801, Joseph Charles Mellish (translator), Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, London: Cotta, Tubingen, Act 5, p. 199,

     The altar is adorn’d, the tapers blaze,

     The bell invites, the incense smokes around,

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 8, p. 256,

     At that time, nothing was heard of but sinister events, and a country smoking around:

   • 1821, Samuel Woodworth, poem written for the reopening of the Park Theater in New York, in Laurence Hutton (ed.), Opening Addresses, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970, p. 39,

     […] shapeless heaps of ruins smoked around,

     And desolation marked the blackened ground,—