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Webster 1913 Edition


Chimney

Chim′ney

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Chimneys
(#)
.
[F.
cheminée
, LL.
caminata
, fr. L.
caminus
furnace, fireplace, Gr. [GREEK] 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
.
(Zool.)
(a)
An American swift (
Chæture pelasgica
) which lives in chimneys.
(b)
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Chimney

CHIMNEY

, n.
1.
In architecture, a body of brick or stone, erected in a building, containing a funnel or funnels, to convey smoke, and other volatile matter through the roof, from the hearth or fire-place, where fuel is burnt. This body of materials is sometimes called a stack of chimneys, especially when it contains two or more funnels, or passages.
2.
A fireplace; the lower part of the body of brick or stone which confines and conveys smoke.

Definition 2024


chimney

chimney

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English

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys)

  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.
    • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
  2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
  3. (Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
  4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.

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Verb

chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)

  1. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

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