transitive. To expose to or treat with smoke or (in early use) steam; spec. to cure or preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to smoke. Also…

transitive. To cure (herring) by smoking. Obsolete. rare.

To preserve by smoking; to smoke-dry (provisions). Obsolete.

transitive. To cure (herrings) by a process which leaves them soft and only half-dried. This is now done by leaving them in dry salt on a floor for…

transitive. To dry or cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke.

To prepare for keeping, by salting, drying, etc.; to preserve (meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.).

To cure or preserve (bacon, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke; to smoke-dry.

To make into bacon; to smoke. literal and figurative.