Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very tall chimney, such as is commonly connected with factories. See
chimney , 3.
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Examples
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Go boldly at the Gorbals, the Goosedubs, and the great chimney-stalk of St Rollox; it is impossible to predict how boldly the municipal pulse may bound beneath the pressure of a dexterous finger.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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Pleiades; and accordingly we proceeded to the railway, trusting that matters might mend so soon as we lost sight of the stupendous chimney-stalk of St Rollox.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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A forest maiden wi'oot the forest or a hard-workin 'factory lass wi'oot a chimney-stalk, is no more convincin' than a seegair band wi'oot the seegair, or an empty pay envelope. "
Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903
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