Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nearly cylindrical pipe of earthenware, brick, or sheet-metal placed on the top of a chimney to increase the draft and prevent smoking. Also called
chimney-can .
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Examples
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She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this.
Les Miserables 2008
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They emitted so dense a cloud of dark, smelly oil smoke that life in Black Town was compared by one visitor to “confinement in a chimney-pot.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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(London: W. H. Allen, 1891), pp. 234–35 (“chimney-pot”); Sidney Pollard and Colin Holmes, Industrial Power and National Rivalry, 1870–1914, vol. 2 of Documents of European Economic History (London: Edward Arnold, 1972), pp.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky.
Les Miserables 2008
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(London: W. H. Allen, 1891), pp. 234–35 (“chimney-pot”); Sidney Pollard and Colin Holmes, Industrial Power and National Rivalry, 1870–1914, vol. 2 of Documents of European Economic History (London: Edward Arnold, 1972), pp.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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They emitted so dense a cloud of dark, smelly oil smoke that life in Black Town was compared by one visitor to “confinement in a chimney-pot.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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The smoke from the flues of Sandbourne had barely strength enough to emerge into the drizzling rain, and hung down the sides of each chimney-pot like the streamer of a becalmed ship; and a troop of rats might have rattled down the pipes from roof to basement with less noise than did the water that day.
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Two men were putting a chimney-pot on one of the chimney-stacks, and two more were scraping green mould from the front wall.
Two on a Tower 2006
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And he made a lot of excellent jokes at the chimney-pot hat, jokes he had read in the Globe
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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Eton suits — long trousers, cut-away jackets, and chimney-pot hats.
Prester John 2005
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