smokestack

[smohk-stak] /ˈsmoʊkˌstæk/

noun

Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.

adjective

pertaining to, engaged in, or dependent on a basic heavy industry, as steel or automaking:

smokestack companies.

Origin

1855-60; smoke + stack

Examples from the web for smokestack

Looking up at the tremendous smokestack hanging out over them as the ship listed even farther only added to the terror.
The pressure for them to do so is increasing as they shut old smokestack factories and redevelop the land for other uses.
Social networks offer a better chance than ever of encouraging independent learning beyond smokestack schooling.
Voyager scientists said the erupting volcano resembled a smokestack.
Two days earlier, one of the crewmen had called his attention to a crack in the starboard outer hull aft of the single smokestack.
The researchers developed new ways to engineer enzymes that can operate at the high temperatures inside a coal plant's smokestack.
Two one-story, brick buildings with arched windows and a brick smokestack are also located on the property.
Industrial facilities often discharge pollutants into the atmosphere, typically through some type of smokestack.
The smokestack display showed students how filters can reduce pollution.
The toy is a pink plastic train engine with blue wheels and smokestack.

British Dictionary definitions for smokestack

/ˈsməʊkˌstæk/

noun

a tall chimney that conveys smoke into the air Sometimes shortened to stack

Word Origin and History for smokestack

also smoke-stack, 1833, from smoke (n.1) + stack (n.).