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  • noun Plural form of smoking.

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Examples

  • Hope you are enjoying all those late-night smokings and pushups.

    A Soldier's Story: Off to the Army 2009

  • Protruded over an almost inaccessible crag, the former primitive instrument would plump its ball into the ranks of the Giaour in the dell below with a precision and an effect hardly requited by victories in the open field or by the cave-smokings of

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

  • "Untle Georgiecums maybe be too 'ittle boy for smokings!"

    Seventeen 1915

  • Jokes, laughter, round dances, refreshments, interludes of smokings and gigglings in the darkness of the verandah, occasional more intellectual flights in the shape of songs and recitations, -- mostly of

    Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

  • We moved westward about mid-afternoon over a rippled and summer sea; an enticing sea, a clean and cool sea, and apparently a welcome sea to all on board; it certainly was to the distressful dustings and smokings and swelterings of the past weeks.

    Following the Equator — Part 1 Mark Twain 1872

  • We moved westward about mid-afternoon over a rippled and summer sea; an enticing sea, a clean and cool sea, and apparently a welcome sea to all on board; it certainly was to the distressful dustings and smokings and swelterings of the past weeks.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

  • On the contrary, he was fond of long talks and long smokings, and evidently was proud of his new friend, the bald-headed chief, and took a pleasure in sounding his praises, and setting forth the power and glory of the Big Hearts of the East.

    The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850

  • Western Locofocos, Southern Moors, and North-country Muscovites, as to the drug in its abuses: strange cures (if any) of strange ailments of mind or body by its prudent use: how to wean men and nations from those deleterious chewings and smokings; with true and particular accounts of such splendid self-conquests as Coleridge and De Quincey, and -- shall I add another, a living name?

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Western Locofocos, Southern Moors, and North-country Muscovites, as to the drug in its abuses: strange cures (if any) of strange ailments of mind or body by its prudent use: how to wean men and nations from those deleterious chewings and smokings; with true and particular accounts of such splendid self-conquests as Coleridge and De Quincey, and -- shall I add another, a living name?

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • On the contrary, he was fond of long talks and long smokings, and evidently was proud of his new friend, the bald-headed chief, and took a pleasure in sounding his praises, and setting forth the power and glory of the Big Hearts of the East.

    The adventures of Captain Bonneville 1837

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