smokestack

[ smohk-stak ]

/ ˈsmoʊkˌstæk /

Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.

pertaining to, engaged in, or dependent on a basic heavy industry, as steel or automaking: smokestack companies.

Origin of smokestack

First recorded in 1855–60; smoke + stack

Americans learned to look at a smokestack and see dying trees and fish downwind.

Green Politics Has to Get More Radical, Because Anything Less Is Impractical |Jedediah Purdy |April 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Poison comes out of a smokestack and, downwind, birds fall from the sky.

Green Politics Has to Get More Radical, Because Anything Less Is Impractical |Jedediah Purdy |April 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The air coming out of the smokestack will be much hotter; and that extra heat is lost.

Farm Engines and How to Run Them |James H. Stephenson
Jack explained, lamely, that he had gripped the smokestack and kicked the lantern with his feet.

Indian and Scout |F. S. Brereton

The place was depopulated and the smokestack stood as a monument to blighted hopes.

The Main Chance |Meredith Nicholson
Through a glass we saw three men on the roof of the craft—then they clung to the smokestack.

A Woman who went to Alaska |May Kellogg Sullivan
They could barely see the top of the smokestack of the pusher a few feet away.

Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp |Alice B. Emerson

smokestack

/ (ˈsməʊkˌstæk) /

a tall chimney that conveys smoke into the air Sometimes shortened to: stack