What is "chimbley"

Usage examples of "chimbley".

The only dry place in the house is in the chimbley corner, where the folks all huddle up, as an old hen and her chickens do under a cart of a wet day.

Us shall bless the saints and board of governors for thee for thy most kindly chops, so long as fleas skip nor urchins climb up chimbleys.

The smoke that curled up from the chimbleys, a wreathin' its way up to the heavens -- all dead and gone.

Mebby it has been a runnin' over and is sparklin' with bright thoughts about how deep underneath the earth lay a big fireplace, that all the cold beggars of mortality could set round and warm their frozen fingers by, - a tryin' to tell how the heat of that fire that escapes now up the chimbleys of volcanoes, and sometimes in sudden drafts blows out sideways into earthquakes, etc.

Bob, ez he war afeard Santy Claus would scorch his feet comin' down the chimbley, -- powerfull lucky fur we uns.

Well, arter gropin' about awhile, at last I got hold of the string and lifted the latch and walked in, and there sot old Marm Blake, close into one corner of the chimbley fireplace, a-see-sawin' in a rockin' chair, and a half grown black house-help, half asleep in t'other corner, a-scroudgin' up over the embers.

Politics and such stuff set 'em a-gapin', like children in a chimbley corner listenin' to tales of ghosts, Salem witches, and Nova Scotia snowstorms.

We should put a chimbley in the middle of the kitchen, just in case Birdle's food catches on fire.

Woodstove 's chucked its chimbley, still, 's summer yet, you don't need the woodstove.

Arrh, there, lass, ye don't be wantin' fer t' foller yon gudeman down Hob's Chimbley, now would'ee?

A light snow was falling as the three visitors trudged across the village green -- carefully skirting Hob's Chimbley -- to seek confirmation of Telemachus' extraordinary discovery.

Hob's Chimbley to be replaced by the apple-cheeked countenance of Granny Bones.

All that's wanted fer 'un is that whatever goes betoomblies a down Hob's Chimbley play t' chosen part.

The ladder in Hob's Chimbley was still in place, but she assumed that the vicar was too stunned to use it, at least for the time being.

I'd've tossed the two of you down Hob's Chimbley and left you there for a Yuletide gift, but what can I do?