Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tube or funnel of glass or other material so placed as to incase the flame of a lamp.
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Examples
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Both lamps burned sweet oil with a wick, and each had a chimney of horn, not at all unlike a modern lamp-chimney.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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For at times it is not pleasant to connect the day of the week chiefly with its being the day to clean one's cupboard or lamp-chimney.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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I was thoroughly disgusted with the career of an artist, and whenever afterwards I was inclined to relapse, Frau Eberlein would call out to me, "Do you, too, want to die from a lamp-chimney?"
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He leaned forward, judging the position of the lamp-chimney by the heat on his face, and puffed out his cheeks to blow.
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Thus when a cabin had been robbed of a gold watch and other valuables, Wood was satisfied, without any other clue to the thief, when he found a finger-print on a lamp-chimney which the man had to light in order to see what he could annex.
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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Stretch a piece of moist bladder across a glass tube, -- a common lamp-chimney will do.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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As an ambitious man he enlarged his artistic capabilities; he ate not only pitch but also pieces of broken glass, and an indigestible lamp-chimney was the cause of his destruction.
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Four of them did not answer to the finger-print test, but the fifth showed a facsimile of the print on the lamp-chimney.
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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Just as soon as it had finished striking, a monstrous big black cat walked into the room and jumped on the table and wropped his tail three times round the lamp-chimney and said: 'Nigger, you and I is the onliest things in this house!'
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Without looking up he pushed a cigar-case toward Duane, and upon Duane's refusal to smoke he took a cigar, rose to light it at the lamp-chimney, and then, settling back in his chair, he faced Duane, making a vain attempt to hide what must have been the fulfilment of a long-nourished curiosity.
The Lone Star Ranger 1914
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