Definitions

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  • adjective Without a chimney.

Etymologies

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chimney +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Between the beds is a living area and cooking pit where an open fire spreads smoke throughout the chimneyless hut.

    Matthew Bergman: To Save the World 2010

  • Most rural housewives cook their meals on one or more chimneyless adobe stoves.

    3. Conditions of Acceptance for Solar Cookers 1990

  • - India: A small chimneyless earthen or brick stove called a chulha is the customary cooking device among Indian women.

    3. Conditions of Acceptance for Solar Cookers 1990

  • He entered the wooden manor house at Hamleigh village with his head held high, and looked down his long nose at the huge, roughhewn wooden crucks supporting the roof, the wattle-and-daub walls, and the chimneyless open fire in the middle of the beaten-earth floor.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • Kilns with additional draught, powered by a chimney, show little tendency to cause carbonization problems compared to chimneyless kilns.

    2. Kilns 1987

  • The chimneyless Louga stove was designed to be used outdoors.

    7. Building Instructions 1984

  • Open fires using three rocks have developed into simple stoves, chiefly in two directions: toward the enclosed chimneyless rock and mud stoves of the tropics, and to the open hearth with chimney of medieval Europe.

    3. Developing Stoves with Local People: 1984

  • The Lorena system usually has one damper on chimneyless stoves, two on chimney types, one front and one back.

    7. Building Instructions 1984

  • So nobody saw Sunni when he carried his chirag, his little chimneyless, smoking tin lamp, into his room, and set it in a niche on the wall, took off his shoes, and threw himself down on his charpoy at eleven o'clock that night.

    The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • _Savupirtti_, the name given to a chimneyless house in the nominative singular in Finnish, famous as we know for its sixteen cases, which so alter the original that to a stranger the word becomes unrecognisable.

    Through Finland in Carts

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