1. a device that uses the draft from a chimney to turn a roasting spit
Usage: historical; archaic

Examples

• The old kitchen featured a smokejack that automatically turned the meat over the fire.
• Before electric motors, cooks relied on smokejacks to rotate their roasts evenly.
• The museum’s colonial kitchen display includes a working smokejack mechanism.
• Hot air rising through the chimney powered the smokejack’s rotating mechanism.
• The smokejack was an ingenious invention that made roasting large cuts of meat much easier.