chimney
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English chymeney, chymney, chymne, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camināta, from Latin caminus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.
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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 hydrocarbon 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.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
- Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- (Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
- (vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
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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 (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
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