chim‧ney /ˈtʃɪmni/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: cheminée, from Late Latin caminata, from Latin caminus 'fireplace', from Greek kaminos]

1. a vertical pipe that allows smoke from a fire to pass out of a building up into the air, or the part of this pipe that is above the roof:
We can’t light a fire because the chimney hasn’t been swept.

2. a tall vertical structure containing a chimney ⇒ smokestack:
a factory chimney

3. technical a narrow opening in tall rocks or cliffs that you can climb up

4. smoke like a chimney if someone smokes like a chimney, they smoke a lot of cigarettes or tobacco – used humorously

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chimney
noun
ADJ. high, tall | short | narrow, wide | tapering | smoking The air was black from smoking chimneys.
sooty | factory, industrial
VERB + CHIMNEY clean, sweep
CHIMNEY + VERB belch sth factory chimneys belching smoke over the town
draw This chimney doesn't draw very well.
CHIMNEY + NOUN breast, flue, piece, pot, stack | sweep

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