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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ship-building, a flue formed by the omission of a timber in the upper works of a vessel, and designed to promote the ventilation of the hold.
  • noun In zoöl., the lower, gas-secreting portion of the pneumatocyst of physophorous siphonophores.

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