chimney
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French cheminee, from Latin caminus, from Ancient Greek κάμινος (“furnace”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chimney (plural chimneys)
- 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.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- (UK) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
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Translations[edit]
vertical tube or hollow column; a flue
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glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp
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UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive
narrow cleft in a rock face
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Verb[edit]
chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)
- (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
