noun🔗ShareA vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydrocarbon based fuels); a flue."During the winter, smoke billowed from the chimneys of the houses in our neighborhood. "architectureenvironmentutilitybuildingtechnologyindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp."Maria carefully cleaned the chimneys of her antique oil lamps to make them shine brighter. "architectureutensildeviceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe smokestack of a steam locomotive."The steam locomotive's chimneys puffed out thick black smoke as it chugged along the tracks. "vehiclepartmachineChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage."The rock climbers carefully navigated the narrow chimneys on the cliff face, wedging their bodies between the walls to ascend. "geologygeographynatureplaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
