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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large chimney or vertical pipe through which combustion vapors, gases, and smoke are discharged.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or being firms, industries, or places involved in heavy manufacturing or in the processing of materials.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pipe, usually of sheet-iron, through which the smoke and gases of combustion from a steam-boiler are discharged into the open air. See cut under passenger-engine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated

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