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This might soot you
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chimney
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A chimney is a conduit for exhausting combustion gases up into open air. Chimney or Chimneys may also refer to: Chimney (locomotive) , specifically for chimneys fitted to railway locomotives Funnel (ship) , chimney or smokestack on a ship Chimney, Oxfordshire ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue. 2 The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES chimney breast chimney pot chimney stack chimney sweep unblock a toilet/drain/chimney etc COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE tall ▪ And a tall chimney with smoke coming out. ▪ The tall chimneys perfect its proportions. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "furnace;" early 14c., "chimney stack of a fireplace;" late 14c., "fireplace in a residential space;" from Old French cheminee "fireplace; room with a fireplace; hearth; chimney stack" (12c., Modern French cheminée ), from Late Latin (camera) ...
Usage examples of chimney.
The wind blew, though, forcing wailing notes from the rock chimneys that studded the blasted land, a dirge Asherah could hear even over the crowd outside the caves.
The first bees entered through the chimney, and then came the tinkle of broken window glass.
In the lamp-room belowstairs, he was supposed to wash the soot from the glass chimneys, trim back the wicks, and refill each vessel with oil.
Beyond the spires, the city of Waterdeep stretched across the benchland like a magnificent diorama, complete with smoking chimneys and fluttering flags.
There was virtually nothing left inside, though the chimney stack still stood, and jagged bits of the walls remained, their logs fallen like jackstraws.
Every breach in the stillness was perfectly clear--the steady scraping in the chimney, the fall of a fragment of rock as he surmounted the lower chockstone, the scraping again as he was forced out on to the containing wall.
Then suddenly there was a chockstone, a great boulder that had rolled down the cliff and jammed in the chimney, it formed a level floor embraced on two sides by buttresses of rock, invisible from the bottom of the valley.
When he reached the shack -- merely a one-roomed hut, with a stovepipe chimney, two windows, and a door -- Christopher stood at the entrance and seemed to illuminate it.
The seaman and his companions were then about six miles from the Chimneys.
In their hands, our daguerrean sky-lights and shot towers, our factory chimneys and signboards, would have become glorious objects, become useful objects.
A short time later, the carriage drew up before a long, dogtrot cabin built of gray cypress logs with cypress shingles on the roof and a mud-daub chimney at each end pouring forth gray plumes of smoke.
The observers were then about six miles from the Chimneys, not far from that part of the downs in which the engineer had been found after his enigmatical preservation.
Also, the sea having destroyed the partitions which Pencroft had put up in certain places in the passages, the Chimneys, on account of the draughts, had become scarcely habitable.
But tell me, Eckert, when one of my chimneys smokes, may I not send a messenger to you, will you not promise me to come and put things in order for me?
Flames leaped as if it were a log of fatwood, thundering as they licked up the chimney.