DCHP-3

smudge bonfire

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

1923
One sees the horses, after a trip--coming in red with blood, perhaps--released for rest, huddling to windward of smudge bonfires, or in default of these standing in a forlorn group together to get in one another's shade.