smudge pot

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a can, pail, etc., often with a perforated bottom, used to build a smudge (def. 1).

Quotations

1947

We had to keep smudge pots going, and all day long they huddled about them.

1957

We used to keep a smudge pot on the tongue of the wagon for the horses--they'd go plumb crazy without it--and another by us on the seat.