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chimneystack

chimneystack is the alternative form 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

Forms of chimneystack

pluralchimneystacks

Questions about chimneystack

What is chimneystack the alternative form of?
Chimneystack is the alternative form of chimney stack.

Words near chimneystack in the dictionary

  1. chimneypot
  2. chimneypots
  3. chimneys
  4. chimneyscape
  5. chimneyscapes
  6. chimneystack
  7. chimneystacks
  8. chimneysweep
  9. chimneysweeper
  10. chimneysweepers
  11. chimneysweeps

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