Chimney-flue
51chimney — noun (plural chimneys) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French chiminee, from Late Latin caminata, from Latin caminus furnace, fireplace, from Greek kaminos; perhaps akin to Greek kamara vault Date: 14th century 1 …
52chimney — /ˈtʃɪmni / (say chimnee) noun (plural chimneys) 1. a structure, usually vertical, containing a passage or flue by which the smoke, gases, etc., of a fire or furnace are carried off and by means of which a draught is created. 2. that part of such… …
53chimney — Vertical shaft enclosing one or more flues for carrying flue gases to the outside atmosphere. See coil tower coil chimney …
54flue — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. duct (see passage, conduit). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. pipe, vent, exhaust; see chimney . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. pipe, channel, duct, vent, passage, tube, airway …
55chimney — [14] Greek kámīnos meant ‘furnace’ (it was related to kamárā ‘vaulted room’, source of English camera and chamber). It was borrowed into Latin as camīnus, from which the adjective camīnātus ‘having a furnace, oven, etc’ was derived. By late Latin …
56flue — [flu:] noun a duct in a chimney for smoke and waste gases. ↘a channel for conveying heat. Origin ME (denoting the mouthpiece of a hunting horn): of unknown origin …
57flue — noun (C) a metal pipe or tube, especially in a chimney, that lets smoke or heat from a fire out of a building …
58flue — n duct, passage, air passage, air hole, airway, vent, venthole; chimney, smokestack, smokeshaft, stack, funnel, stovepipe, Naut. Sl.Charley Noble …
59chimney — chim•ney [[t]ˈtʃɪm ni[/t]] n. pl. neys 1) a structure, usu. vertical, containing a passage or flue by which the smoke, gases, etc., of a fire or furnace are carried off 2) archit. the part of such a structure that rises above a roof 3) sts the… …
60flue — [[t]flu[/t]] n. 1) bui a passage or duct for smoke in a chimney 2) bui mad any duct or passage for air, gas, or the like 3) bui a tube, esp. a large one, in a fire tube boiler 4) mad a narrow slit in the upper end of an organ pipe through which… …
