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chimneyed

chimneyed adjective: featuring one or more chimneys.

Adjective

chimneyed (not comparable)

  1. Featuring one or more chimneys.
    • The cloud had sunk, and filled with fold on fold
      The chimneyed city; […]1864, George MacDonald, “The Inner Dream.”, in A Hidden Life and Other Poems
    • He had watched the evening close in lurid and stormy across the chimneyed wastes of the black country, until the darkness covered all the land, and wiped out even the last memory of the dead day from the western sky.1890, Mary Cholmondeley, The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers, page 262

Examples of chimneyed in a sentence

  • [T]hey stood before a farmhouse, timbered and chimneyed […]1899, Charlotte M. Yonge, Hopes and Fears, page 7:
  • They found a rough-cast country cottage, old, damp, decayed; smoky chimneyed and rat-riddled; […]1911, W. G. Collingwood, The Life of John Ruskin, page 217:
  • Through this window, and still better from the parapet outside, may be seen […] the hint beyond a steepled and chimneyed horizon of the wooded heights of Highgate.1920, Sir Harry Johnston, “Vivie and Norie”, in Mrs. Warren's Daughter:

Forms of chimneyed

alternative form (archaic)chimnied

Origin of chimneyed

From chimney + -ed.

Questions about chimneyed

What does chimneyed mean?
Chimneyed means featuring one or more chimneys.
How do you use chimneyed in a sentence?
[T]hey stood before a farmhouse, timbered and chimneyed […]
What part of speech is chimneyed?
Chimneyed is an adjective.

Words near chimneyed in the dictionary

  1. chimney-sweeps
  2. chimneyboard
  3. chimneyboards
  4. chimneybreast
  5. chimneybreasts
  6. chimneyed
  7. chimneyful
  8. chimneyfuls
  9. chimneyhead
  10. chimneyheads
  11. chimneying

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