Find the word definition

Crossword clues for chimney

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chimney
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.
▪ He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area.
▪ Around the margins of the hill, the termites construct tall, thin-walled chimneys which stand out from the sides like ribs.
▪ A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard.
▪ Most villages had a sugarmill with a tall, slender chimney, or a modest watermill.
■ NOUN
brick
▪ Nothing remains but the brick chimney and stone porch.
▪ Like the new benches that were made, or the new brick chimney for the stove.
factory
▪ The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.
▪ Everyone was looking ahead, where a stick of black smoke stood on the horizon like a factory chimney.
▪ Look for a factory chimney cloud - or a wisp of smoke curling across the sky; that will be brent geese.
▪ At the bus stop the breath of the queue is like a row of factory chimneys.
▪ You can see the smoke from a factory chimney or the oil slick menacing your favourite beach.
piece
▪ In style Brick House almost resembled Charleston, but more cottagey, with Staffordshire ornaments on the chimney piece.
▪ The marble chimney piece of the saloon.
▪ With its low ceiling, bookcases at both ends and plain grey-marble chimney piece, the room combined comfort and dignity.
pot
▪ The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames.
▪ The mortar securing the chimney pot would have to be replaced, along with the pot.
▪ Two marble top wash-stands made £235; a pair Victorian chimney pots, £110 and an oak and marble sideboard, £300.
▪ Features include two old chimney pots and a sundial.
▪ When he left, she gave him two chimney pots, which had previously been on her house.
▪ But before any type of chimney pot is fitted, check the condition of the flue.
▪ Starlings, blundering among the chimney pots, precipitate small avalanches over their tails.
smoke
▪ White chimney smoke is the traditional signal that a new pope has been chosen.
stack
▪ Due to high winds the chimney stack became unsafe.
▪ There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.
▪ The chimney stack was too high to consider pushing it down, so I had to try fishing it out.
▪ Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack.
▪ Above the kitchen chimney stack, the sky quavers on a high inaudible note.
▪ Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.
▪ Nearly falling off the roof in fright, Hilary grabbed frantically at the chimney stack to keep her balance.
sweep
▪ She might even ring the chimney sweep.
▪ Neighbors had complained that months went by and one never saw a chimney sweep.
▪ That would not have been a risk incidental to the trade of chimney sweep.
■ VERB
rise
▪ Smoke rose from several chimneys, straight blue columns in the still air, signs of habitation.
▪ That smoke rising from the chimney, for example, has never heard of time, space, qualities, or quantities.
▪ A big house, with no smoke rising from the chimneys.
▪ He fanned the coals with the pad till the ashes rose up the chimney and the flames jumped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Smoke drifted from a chimney.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Check chimney flues and heating equipment in summer and do maintenance, make repairs or replace an outmoded system.
▪ Half way down the row of chimneys is the well.
▪ Remember your load-bearing walls and chimneys from the roof inspection?
▪ She is preoccupied with the chimney opposite her balcony, against which a shape is leaning.
▪ Smoke poured from the central chimney, the rich, black coal smoke from the furnace.
▪ White chimney smoke is the traditional signal that a new pope has been chosen.
▪ You don't need a chimney of those proportions nowadays.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chimney

Chimney \Chim"ney\, n.; pl. Chimneys. [F. chemin['e]e, LL. caminata, fr. L. caminus furnace, fireplace, Gr. ? furnace, oven.]

  1. A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.]
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

  2. That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.

    Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
    --Milton.

  3. A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

  4. (Min.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. --Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. Chimney swallow. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. An American swift ( Ch[ae]ture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys.

    2. In England, the common swallow ( Hirundo rustica).

      Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chimney

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) caminata "fireplace; room with a fireplace," from Latin caminatus, adjective of caminus "furnace, forge; hearth, oven; flue," from Greek kaminos "furnace, oven, brick kiln." Jamieson [1808] notes that in vulgar use in Scotland it always is pronounced "chimley." Chimney sweep attested from 1610s, earlier chimney sweeper (c.1500).

Wiktionary
chimney

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. 3 (context British English) The smokestack of a steam locomotive. 4 A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage. vb. (context climbing English) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

WordNet
chimney
  1. n. a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building

  2. a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp [syn: lamp chimney]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Chimney

A chimney is a structure that provides ventilation for hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack, or chimney, effect. The space inside a chimney is called a flue. Chimneys may be found in buildings, steam locomotives and ships. In the United States, the term smokestack (colloquially, stack) is also used when referring to locomotive chimneys or ship chimneys, and the term funnel can also be used.

The height of a chimney influences its ability to transfer flue gases to the external environment via stack effect. Additionally, the dispersion of pollutants at higher altitudes can reduce their impact on the immediate surroundings. In the case of chemically aggressive output, a sufficiently tall chimney can allow for partial or complete self-neutralization of airborne chemicals before they reach ground level. The dispersion of pollutants over a greater area can reduce their concentrations and facilitate compliance with regulatory limits.

Chimney (disambiguation)

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, hamlet in England
  • Chimney (sculpture), outside Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis
  • Chimneying, rock-climbing technique
  • Chimneys (play) by Agatha Christie
  • Chimneys novels, two light-hearted thrillers by Agatha Christie
  • Fairy chimney, tall thin rock formation
  • Methane chimney, underground gas buildup
  • Solar chimney, method of heating a building using passive solar energy
  • Chimney swift, Chaetura pelagica
  • Chimney crayfish, Cambarus diogenes
  • Chimney bellflower, Campanula pyramidalis
Chimney (sculpture)

Chimney is a brick sculpture which contains multiple architectural and sculptural elements, and is part of a larger, more open plaza designed for children. It is located outside the lobby atrium of the Riley Hospital for Children.

Chimney (locomotive)

The chimney (smokestack or stack in American and Canadian English) is the part of a steam locomotive through which smoke leaves the boiler. Steam locomotive exhaust systems typically vent cylinder exhaust through the chimney to enhance draught through the boiler. Chimneys are designed to carry exhaust steam and smoke clear of the driver's line of sight while remaining short enough clear overhead structures. Some chimneys included features to avoid dispersing sparks.

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.