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smoke smudge
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a fire which gives off dense, acrid smoke from having damp moss, green grass or leaves, etc. heaped on its flames.
See: smudge (DCHP-1)(def. 1)
Quotations
1958
I didn't have any matches to start a fire or to make a smoke smudge and there were times when I thought the mosquitoes would eat me up.
1958
The scores of smoke smudges set out on his land on August nights failed to spare the crops from early frost but they served a purpose inasmuch as homesteaders thereabouts were spared from pursuing the same futile technique.