See Also: chimney(dictionary)
chimney pot(dictionary)
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chimney breast(dictionary)
chimney stack(dictionary)
chimney sweep(dictionary)
chimney-piece(dictionary)
chimney sweep's cancer(medicine)

chimney (iou)



chimney noun & verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French cheminee chimney, fireplace, from late Latin caminata, perh. orig. for camera caminata room with a fireplace, from Latin caminus forge, furnace, from Greek kaminos oven, furnace.]
A. noun.
A fireplace, a hearth. obsolete exc. dial. ME.
A furnace. ME-E17.
A (portable) stove. LME-E17.
A channel or flue by which smoke from a fire, furnace, engine, etc. ascends; the part of this above a roof etc. LME.
smoke like a chimney smoke cigarettes etc. very heavily.
Arnold Bennett To the east rose pitheads, chimneys, and kilns. P. V. White The slow fire, upon which a dusty yellow light descended through the shaft that served them as a chimney.
transf. A natural opening in the earth's surface, esp. that of a volcano. LME.
More fully lamp-chimney. A glass tube over the wick of a lamp protecting and providing a draught for the flame. M19.
Mining. An ore-shoot. M19.
Mountaineering. A steep and narrow cleft by which a cliff or mountain face may be climbed. L19.
Comb.: chimney-bar an iron bar supporting the masonry above a fireplace; chimney-board a board used to close up a fireplace in summer; chimney-breast: see BREAST noun 8; chimney-corner a warm seat within an old-fashioned fireplace; chimney-money Hist. a tax on fire-hearths, spec. that in England and Wales in the 17th cent.; chimney-nook = chimney-corner above; chimney-piece (a) a picture, piece of sculpture, etc., over a fireplace; (b) a mantelpiece; chimney-pot (a) an earthenware or metal pipe, added to a chimney-top; (b) arch. (more fully chimney-pot hat) a tall silk hat; chimney-stack a number of chimneys standing together; a tall factory chimney; chimney swallow the common swallow, Hirundo rustica; (N. Amer.) = chimney swift below; chimney-sweep, chimney-sweeper a person whose business is to remove soot from chimneys; chimney swift N. Amer. a swift, Chaetura pelagica, often nesting in chimneys; chimney-top the part of a chimney which rises above the roof, esp. the flat upper surface of this.
b. verb.
verb trans. Provide with a chimney. E19.
verb intrans. Mountaineering. Climb up a chimney. M20.
chimneyless adjective having no chimney(s) M17.