woodsmoke
English
Etymology
wood + smoke
Noun
woodsmoke (uncountable)
- smoke produced from burning wood.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
- I came to the southern end of a line of cliffs loftier than any I had seen before, and as I approached them, there was wafted to my nostrils the pungent aroma of woodsmoke. What could it mean? There could, to my mind, be but a single solution: man abided close by, a higher order of man than we had as yet seen, other than Ahm, the Neanderthal man.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
Anagrams
- smokewood