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smoke smudge 
a fire which gives off dense, acrid smoke from having damp moss, green grass or leaves, etc. heaped on its flames.
See also: smudge (def. 1)
- 1958 The scores of smoke smudges set out on his land on August nights failed to spare the crops from early frost but they served a purpose inasmuch as homesteaders thereabouts were spared from pursuing the same futile technique.
- 1958 I didn't have any matches to start a fire or to make a smoke smudge and there were times when I thought the mosquitoes would eat me up.
- 1958 The scores of smoke smudges set out on his land on August nights failed to spare the crops from early frost but they served a purpose inasmuch as homesteaders thereabouts were spared from pursuing the same futile technique.