chimney pot

See also: chimneypot

English

Rows of chimney pots in an English town, 2013.

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Noun

chimney pot (plural chimney pots)

1. A short earthenware pipe, placed on top of a chimney to improve the draft.
   • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:

     At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.

Synonyms

• can

Translations

pipe on the top of a chimney

• French: tuyau de cheminée m
• German: Schornsteinaufsatz m
• Irish: croca simléir m, pota simléir m
• Scots: chumli-can
• Scottish Gaelic: ceann simileir m