Crossword clues for chimneysweep
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chimneysweep \chimneysweep\, chimneysweeper \chimneysweeper\n. someone who cleans soot from chimneys, usually as a profession.
Syn: chimneysweeper, sweep.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of chimney sweep English)
WordNet
n. someone who cleans soot from chimneys [syn: chimneysweeper, sweep]
Usage examples of "chimneysweep".
More dimly, then, somewhere in mist behind, he saw other figures moving--the Dustman and the Lamplighter, the Demon Chimneysweep in black, the Woman of the Haystack--outposts and sentries of a larger fascinating host that gathered waiting in the shadows just beyond.
After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.
He spoke, chanted, sang, crooned, howled: of chimneysweeps and whores, of the echoing green, of the worm in the night, of mind-forged manacles, of Urizen and Ore turning endlessly into each other, of the infinity in a grain of sand, of the eternity in an hour.
Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush?