smokehole

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the hole in the top of a teepee through which the smoke escapes.

Quotations

1896

We were destined to spend the next day in the blankets, with the clouds of powdery snow settling down through the smokehole of our lodge upon us.

1954

At night they would lie by the fire under the smoke-hole while he told the little fellow old, old stories of their grounds.