CHIMNEY

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chimney" is a kind of...):

flue (a conduit to carry off smoke)

Meronyms (parts of "chimney"):

chimneystack (the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues)

damper (a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace)

fireplace; hearth; open fireplace (an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chimney"):

smokestack; stack (a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated)

stovepipe (chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp

Synonyms:

chimney; lamp chimney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chimney" is a kind of...):

flue (a conduit to carry off smoke)

Holonyms ("chimney" is a part of...):

kerosene lamp; kerosine lamp; oil lamp (a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light)

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Context examples:

The breakfast-room chimney smokes a little, I grant you, but it is only when the wind is due north and blows hard, which may not happen three times a winter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl—if Sibyl she were—was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney- corner.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And then there is a chimney which is generally smoking; so somebody must live there.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Far away I could catch glimpses of the old grey building with its bristling Tudor chimneys, but the drive ran through a dense shrubbery, and I saw no more of my man.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But so low did the building stand, that she found herself passing through the great gates of the lodge into the very grounds of Northanger, without having discerned even an antique chimney.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Close to the corner of the chimney sat a middle-aged gleeman, clad in a faded garb of Norwich cloth, the tunic of which was so outgrown that it did not fasten at the neck and at the waist.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a welcome sight; for here was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed with another log fire,—also added to but lately, for the top logs were fresh—which sent a hollow roar up the wide chimney.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For, if the town intended to be destroyed should have in it any tall rocks, as it generally falls out in the larger cities, a situation probably chosen at first with a view to prevent such a catastrophe; or if it abound in high spires, or pillars of stone, a sudden fall might endanger the bottom or under surface of the island, which, although it consist, as I have said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by approaching too near the fires from the houses below, as the backs, both of iron and stone, will often do in our chimneys.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Smoke? You don't mean chimneys?” said my aunt.