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Ship’s smokestack
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funnel
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A funnel is the smokestack or chimney on a ship used to expel boiler steam and smoke or engine exhaust . They are also commonly referred to as stacks .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Funnel \Fun"nel\, n. [OE. funel, fonel, prob. through OF. fr, L. fundibulum, infundibulum, funnel, fr. infundere to pour in; in in + fundere to pour; cf. Armor. founil funnel, W. ffynel air hole, chimney. See Fuse , v. t.] A vessel of the shape of an inverted ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, funell , fonel , from Middle French fonel , apparently a word from a southern French dialect, such as Provençal enfounilh (Weekley calls it "a word from the Southern wine trade"), from Late Latin fundibulum , shortened from Latin infundibulum "a ...
Usage examples of funnel.
A slice of his course funnel was blue instead of orange and he thought that might indicate an escape route, but when he looked up the key in the automanual he discovered that it was simply a collision vector warning.
Off-books deals were assembled to funnel in other money from banks and outside lenders.
A kind of arm carried a complicated metallic case, about which green flashes scintillated, and out of the funnel of this there smoked the Heat-Ray.
He yawned at the two state security menblack uniforms, black helmets, funnel guns, stunners, shiny boots.
Paleozoic mesofauna he expected to sift through a tullgren funnel, would have meant a damn thing.
Smoke was pouring out of the funnel and the Ferryman was alternately welcoming passengers aboard and dashing amidships to check with Metalsmith about the engine.
The usual methods of supporting the funnel during filtration are shown in fig.
Since then, the loophole has been enlarged to funnel millions to pro teams that are already here, but have threatened to defect.
However it got there, the fea-ture was a rock-strewn funnel that narrowed toward Munchkin as it rose from the plain a thousand feet below us.
They were in a small circular room, shaped like an English oasthouse, its roof running upwards in a funnel to meet the sky.
It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles, each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future.
He had reunified Germany, funneling massive sums of money from West to East Germany to lift the incomes of those who had made far less under communism.
So for a time the small settler community dwelt on the fringe of Samoa, causing difficulties and embarrassements from time to time, but also serving the useful function of funnelling foreign, manufactured goods into Samoan society.
Sabians were called by proper Moslems, had some sort of semiautonomous enclave on an airless moon of one of the gas giants of the orange star, and there had been recent nationalist stirrings among a disaffected few that the Sultan was attempting to quell by funneling more financial aid through the ruling elders.
Under ordinary conditions, sensations are constantly being funneled into the cerebrum and motor impulses are constantly being sprayed outward.