CHIMNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chimney mean? 

• CHIMNEY (noun)
  The noun CHIMNEY has 2 senses:

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

2. a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp

  Familiarity information: CHIMNEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIMNEY (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chimney; lamp chimney

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)

 Context examples 

The clash and glare of sundry fiery Works upon the river-side, arose by night to disturb everything except the heavy and unbroken smoke that poured out of their chimneys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now the window was shut, but the fire would naturally carry fumes to some extent up the chimney.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wife said: “Fool, that is not your little cat, that is the morning sun which is shining on the chimneys.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At one time Patty came to say she thought the kitchen chimney wanted sweeping.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You are a chimney, a living volcano, a perambulating smoke-stack, and you are a perfect disgrace, Martin dear, you know you are.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

From a grove upon our left I could already see the high chimneys and the flag-staff which marked the squire’s dwelling.

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

The chimney is wide, but is barred up by four large staples.

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

Jo sat still, looking as if the fire had come to her, for her cheeks burned long after the cocked hat had turned to smoke and gone harmlessly up the chimney.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These trees act as chimneys, funnelling the methane produced in the submerged soil into the atmosphere.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

The floor was a little raised, so that it was kept perfectly dry, and by its vicinity to the chimney of the cottage it was tolerably warm.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)