Smoker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smoker \Smok"er\, n.
     1. One who dries or preserves by smoke.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. One who smokes tobacco or the like.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     3. A smoking car or compartment. [U. S.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. [Colloq.]
  
              That evening A Company had a "smoker" in one of the
              disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp.     --Strand Mag.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     {black smoker}, a vent at the bottom of the ocean, usually at
        a mid-ocean ridge, through which large quantities of water
        carrying minerals flow, producing a jet of fluid with the
        appearance of black smoke. The ocean water in crevices
        below the vent is heated to temperatures near 400[deg] C,
        and dissolves quantities of metal salts, such as of
        copper, zinc, gold, and manganese. When the saturated
        mineral solutions exit the vent, cooling by contact with
        the ocean causes the metals to precipitate, mainly as
        sulfide or sulfate salts. Unusual forms of life such as
        {tube worms} have been found to live in the areas near
        black smokers. Additional information is available from [a
        HREF="http:]/www.nhm.ac.uk/science/mineral/project5/">The
        Natural History Museum of London and [a
        HREF="http:]/www.amnhonline.org/expeditions/blacksmokers/">The
        American Museum of Natural History Expeditions.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  smoker
       n 1: a person who smokes tobacco [syn: {tobacco user}] [ant: {nonsmoker}]
       2: a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men
          only) [syn: {stag party}]
       3: a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke [syn: {smoking
          car}, {smoking carriage}, {smoking compartment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "smoker":
     Kaffeeklatsch, Pullman, Pullman car, baggage car, ball, blowout,
     boxcar, caboose, car, carriage, chair car, chewer, coach, coal car,
     cocktail party, coffee klatch, costume party, covered waggon,
     day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, dinner, dinner party,
     donation party, drawing room, entertainment, festivity, flat,
     flatcar, garden party, gondola, hen party, house party,
     house-raising, housewarming, lawn party, local, luggage van,
     mail car, mail van, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party,
     palace car, parlor car, party, passenger car, railway car, reefer,
     refrigerator car, roomette, shindig, shindy, shower, sleeper,
     smoking car, smoking room, snuff dipper, snuffer, stag, stag party,
     stockcar, surprise party, tank, tender, tobacco user, truck, van,
     waggon