flue

• The plant's unit-three scrubber - also known as a flue gas desulfurization unit - will start operating next week.
• The rest of the flue is paved with bricks, and rises insensibly 4 inches towards the chimney, in which it opens by two holes, 1-1/2 inches wide, 8 or 9 inches high Immediately under the hearth, is a mash hole 4 feet deep, occupying all its capacity, and projecting 2 feet forward. —  The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain
• Nowadays there are, as we know, modifications of Sir William Fairbairn's bands, but by means of his bands, or by modifications thereof, all internally flued boilers are so strengthened that the risk of a collapse of the flue is at an end. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881
• He had an aptitude for kindling the fires of domestic harmony, but he had discovered overnight the futility of fanning a hearthstone blaze when the flue was choked so completely. —  Broken to the Plow
• It hung between a tiller-wheel and a flue, and at one A.M. I was roused by the banging of the cot against its boundaries. —  Fragments of science, V. 1-2

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