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Word: Chimney
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English (denoting a fireplace or furnace): from Old French cheminee ‘chimney, fireplace’, from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, from Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’, from Greek kaminos ‘oven’
ˈtʃɪmni
a vertical channel or pipe which conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building
Short Definition:pipe for carrying away smoke
Examples:- a coal fire thrust yellow flames up the chimney
- a factory chimney
a glass tube protecting the flame of a lamp
Short Definition:glass tube on lamp
Examples:- he trimmed the wick and put the glass chimney over the flame
a very steep narrow cleft by which a rock face may be climbed
Short Definition:steep cleft on rock face
Examples:- he slid fifty feet down a chimney, and became wedged there
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