Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chimney-top .
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Examples
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Edinburgh, in which there is scarcely a single chimney-head that is not more or less in this condition; and I have no doubt that this is not an uncommon case.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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At that time the devil, we are informed, came with new and extraordinary assaults, by throwing stones in through the doors and windows and chimney-head of this devil-besetted dwelling.
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In answer to its yells the fairies are heard moaning and rattling at the window boards, the chimney-head, and the door.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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I must say I was glad of any feasible excuse to make to the sweep, to get quit of him and his laddie, the father being a drucken ne'er-do-weel, that I wonder did not fall long ere this time of day from some chimney-head, and get his neck broken.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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