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chimneypot

chimneypot is the alternative form of chimney pot.

Meaning of chimney pot

Noun

chimney pot (plural chimney pots)

  1. A short earthenware pipe, placed on top of a chimney to improve the draft.
    • At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to...1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704
    Synonyms:
    can

Forms of chimneypot

pluralchimneypots

Questions about chimneypot

What is chimneypot the alternative form of?
Chimneypot is the alternative form of chimney pot.

Words near chimneypot in the dictionary

  1. chimneylike
  2. chimneyman
  3. chimneymen
  4. chimneypiece
  5. chimneypieces
  6. chimneypot
  7. chimneypots
  8. chimneys
  9. chimneyscape
  10. chimneyscapes
  11. chimneystack

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