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chimney stacks

chimney stacks is the plural of chimney stack.

Meaning of chimney stack

Noun

chimney stack (plural chimney stacks)

  1. A vertical structure, normally of brick, rising from a roof, containing one or more flues, each one terminating in a chimney pot.
    • The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11

Questions about chimney stacks

What is chimney stacks the plural of?
Chimney stacks is the plural of chimney stack.

Words near chimney stacks in the dictionary

  1. chimney pieces
  2. chimney pot
  3. chimney pots
  4. Chimney Rock
  5. chimney stack
  6. chimney stacks
  7. chimney stalk
  8. chimney stalks
  9. chimney swallow
  10. chimney swallows
  11. chimney sweep

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