Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of smoke-dry
- That has been cured or dried in smoke.
All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 110
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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