chimney stack
See also: chimneystack
English
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editchimney stack (plural chimney stacks)
- (architecture) A vertical structure, normally of brick, rising from a roof, containing one or more flues, each one terminating in a chimney pot.
- 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
- The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.
Translations
editstructure containing flue(s)
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