chimney : Idioms & Phrases

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chimney bellflower

  • noun bellflower of southeastern Europe
    chimney bellflower; Campanula pyramidalis.
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Chimney board

  • a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard.
Webster 1913

chimney breast

  • noun walls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base
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Chimney cap

  • a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward.
Webster 1913

Chimney corner

  • noun a corner by a fireplace
    inglenook.
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  • the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside.
Webster 1913

Chimney hook

  • a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire,
Webster 1913

Chimney money

  • hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney.
Webster 1913

chimney plant

  • noun bellflower of southeastern Europe
    chimney bellflower; Campanula pyramidalis.
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Chimney pot

  • (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof.
Webster 1913

Chimney swallow

  • noun American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys
    Chateura pelagica; chimney swallow.
  • noun common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.
    Hirundo rustica; barn swallow.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) An American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica).
Webster 1913

Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper

  • one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.
Webster 1913

chimney swift

  • noun American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys
    Chateura pelagica; chimney swallow.
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chimney-breast

Chim"ney-breast` noun
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
Webster 1913

chimney-piece

Chim"ney-piece` noun
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
Webster 1913

lamp chimney

  • noun a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp
    chimney.
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Steam chimney

  • an annular chamber around the chimney of a boiler furnace, for drying steam.
Webster 1913

Stick chimney

  • a chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. U.S.
Webster 1913