smoke-talk

noun3

1. •
   (Australia, no longer used) The traditional Aboriginal use of smoke to send messages; smoke-signalling.

   • It found new things on which to pander, as the tribal drums thudded and the smoke-talk climbed the Australian sky. — 1932
2. •
   (Australia, no longer used) A message so sent; a smoke-signal.

   • ‘From the smoke-talks I really thought you must have been bringing out the native Leprosy Commission that I’ve heard vague rumours of.’ — 1937
3. •
   (no longer used) A conversation undertaken while smoking tobacco, or while making smoke with a fire.