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smokefall

noun

Etymology

From smoke + fall.

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as smokefall — “smoke + fall”

Definitions

  1. The close of the day before nightfall, when fog comes.

    • The moment in the draughty church at smokefall

  2. The soot fallout from a cloud of smoke.

    • The largest sea ice perturbations are generated by smokefall in spring.

  3. An artificial waterfall of smoke for shows.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smokefall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA