chimneys

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys or (archaic) chimnies)

1. 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.
   • 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.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   lum

2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
   • By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 22
3. (UK) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
5. (euphemistic, vulgar) A vagina.
6. (Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.

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