chimney pot

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. an earthenware or metal pipe or deflector, often cylindrical, fitted on the top of a chimney to increase draft and reduce or disperse smoke.

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Etymology

Origin of chimney pot

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Flying above the hive, she can make out certain features — a tree, a house, a chimney pot; the rest is indistinct.

From New York Times

And “Dawn Chorus,” with Yorke's low, breathy vocals over a halting keyboard pattern, is one of the prettiest things he’s ever written — a strangely tender ballad delivered from “the middle of the vortex,” as he puts it, where “soot from the chimney pot” forms “spiral patterns of you, my love.”

From Los Angeles Times

Previous Christmases have seen the box wrapped as a present, a chimney pot and also transformed into a bauble.

From BBC

Since then it has been wrapped as a giant Christmas present and disguised as a chimney pot with a sleigh on top.

From BBC

By whatever name, the goal is the same: to sneak out in the dead of night and shroud the victim’s house from chimney pot to privet hedge with yard upon yard of toilet paper, preferably the tinted or floral varieties.

From Time

Related Words

• fireplace
• flue
• furnace
• hearth
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