Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In whaling, fluked; barbed; having a fluke or flue, as a harpoon: usually in composition: as, one-flued; two-flued.

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Examples

  • Conclusion 1: this oven seals really well and is well flued.

    What I cooked last night. 2005

  • Conclusion 1: this oven seals really well and is well flued.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • The tank is mounted in firebricks or stones over an enclosed, flued firebox (Figure 14).

    3 Ethanol Production 1983

  • The boilers, two in number, are of the ordinary Cornish single-flued type, 5 ft. diameter by 18 ft. long, with flue 2 ft. 9 in. diameter, with three

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

  • The stills used in the process of refining the crude oil are horizontal two-flued cylinders, 30 ft. in length by 10 ft. in diameter, provided with six 2 in. vapor pipes.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

  • Clean heat options include clean burning wood burners, pellet fires, heat pumps and flued gas heaters.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • But a group campaigning on the issue has turned up the heat on ministers, demanding to know when the rest of the state's schools will get safe, flued heating systems.

    The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2010

  • A recently published study by the University of Otago, Wellington shows that installing heat pumps, wood or pellet burners or flued gas heaters is the key to cutting school sick days for children with asthma.

    Medindia Health News 2010

  • The company manufactures industrial equipment, turbines, precision bearings and flued control devices as well as construction equipment.

    TheStockAdvisor 2008

  • Grimes, however, claimed that the amniotic flued had entered Christine's bloodstream when the placenta had detached, and not through the cervical lacerations.

    RealChoice 2008

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