reek
/riːk/ noun C2- A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).
Plural reeks
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A cold, damp reek from the moat chilled us to the bones and set our teeth chattering.
In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
Beside it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners, driven away no doubt by the foul reek of the surrounding swamp.
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