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plural chimneys or (archaic) chimnies
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. quotations examples
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.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883
Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp. examples
(Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive. examples
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage. examples
(vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina. examples
(Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.
third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed
(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc. examples