Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The reverse of a return-flue; a flue for conducting hot gases from the front to the rear end of a boiler.
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The arrows show its descent through these flues, from which it obliquely strikes and passes over the flue-plate, then under it, and then out through the centre back-flue, which is open at the bottom, up into the smoke-pipe.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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