smoke around

English

Alternative forms

• smoke round

Verb

smoke around (third-person singular simple present smokes around, present participle smoking around, simple past and past participle smoked around)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.
   • 1755, Joseph Warton, “The Revenge of America”, in Robert Dodsley, editor, A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes‎^[1], volume 4, London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 209:

     He broke his arrows, stampt the ground,
     To view his cities smoaking round.

   • 1762, James Macpherson, Fingal‎^[2], London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Book 1, pp. 12-13:

     Chief mixed his strokes with chief, and man with man; steel, clanging, sounded on steel, helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smoaks around.

   • 1801, Joseph Charles Mellish (translator), Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, London: Cotta, Tubingen, Act 5, p. 199,^[3]

     The altar is adorn’d, the tapers blaze,

     The bell invites, the incense smokes around,

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons‎^[4], London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 8, p. 256:

     At that time, nothing was heard of but sinister events, and a country smoking around:

   • 1821, Samuel Woodworth, poem written for the reopening of the Park Theater in New York, in Laurence Hutton (ed.), Opening Addresses, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970, p. 39,^[5]

     […] shapeless heaps of ruins smoked around,

     And desolation marked the blackened ground,—