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smokeless

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Etymology

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    From smoke + -less.

    Adjective

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    smokeless (not comparable)

    1. Without smoke.
      smokeless fuel
      smokeless gunpowder
      • 1957 April, “The Clean Air Act and the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 222:
        The position will then differ little from that under previous legislation, but any infringement of the law will be much more noticeable in smokeless zones.
    2. (firearms) Of a gun, that does not produce smoke when fired.
      • 1971, Thomas G. Burton, Ambrose N. Manning, editors, Folksongs II, Research Advisory Council of East Tennessee State University, page 19:
        I run home, jumped in the bed,
        Laid a forty-four smokeless under my head.
    3. Of tobacco, to be consumed through methods other than smoking.

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