smoke hole

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   a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape

   Broadervent

Questions about smoke hole

What does smoke hole mean?

smoke hole means "a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape".

Is smoke hole a common word?

smoke hole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.