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chimney

About 3.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
  3. noun The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
  4. noun A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
  5. noun A vagina.
  6. noun A black eye; a shiner.
  7. verb To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

Similar words

lamp chimney flue mantelpiece fireplace hearth forge hole sweeper firehouse funnel

Often followed by

and of is in corner was to rock sweep

Word family

chimneylike chimneys

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