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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The top of a chimney. Also called chimney-head.
- n. An organ-pipe having a small open tube in the middle of the top plate, the effect of which is to sharpen the note. The same effect is sometimes produced in stopped wooden pipes by boring a little hole through the tompion.
Examples
“He is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity, from foundation stone to chimney-top and turret, but a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint stair cases and groined ceilings.”
“Shutter and cast the base slab, fire chamber slab, upper slab and chimney-top slab.”
“So were there Dutch predikants who were decidedly anti-British while the British were over the hills and far away; but who fell in love with the Union Jack the moment it arrived; even if they did not set it fluttering from their own chimney-top.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“It even pained hiss weakened eyes: so long the oblong slip of clay running from the cell to the wall had been his share, and the yellow patch of sky and brick chimney-top beyond.”
“He endeavours to get out by the chimney, pretending he is "only the smoke"; and all hands rush to clap a cover on the chimney-top, and a big stone on that.”
“Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands?”
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
“Now, when seemingly countless legions swept by with martial tread, their resounding footsteps and splendid appearance equally with the roll of many drums and the clash of regimental bands stirred the hearts of the multitude thronging the sidewalks, crowding every door-way and gallery, "mounting wall and battlement, yea, even to chimney-top;" not, indeed, to see a "great Cæsar," but to hail with wildest delight”
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War
“Do you think he left the remnant of his stocking on the chimney-top?”
“For a day or two, the old ones feed them on the chimney-top, after which, they conduct them to the dead bough of some tree near at hand, where they continue attending them with the greatest assiduity.”
“And from its chimney-top, ascending and slowly expanding”
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