Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dialectal forms of
chimney .
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Examples
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In the chamber there was a grit iron chimlay, under it a fire; other grit provision was not seen.
Ivanhoe 2004
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In the chamber there was a grit iron chimlay, under it a fire; other grit provision was not seen.
Ivanhoe 1892
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Commendator 'betwix an iron chimlay and a fire,' and there cruelly roasted him until he signed away his abbacy. it is one of the ugliest stories of an ugly period, but not, somehow, without such a flavour of the ridiculous as makes it hard to sympathise quite seriously with the victim.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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In the chamber there was a grit iron chimlay, under it a fire; other grit provision was not seen.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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a grit iron chimlay, under it a fire; other grit provision was not seen.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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