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

Because it was nearly dusk and suppertime, blue smoke rose from every chimney pot in the village they had left, and in the low places mist began to rise.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

We, with our nobler civic sentiment, model ours on a chimney pot; the ensign of civilisation.

From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)

After picking and diving their way beneath the trembling lines of underwear, pillowcases, sheets, and what not, they paused in front of a tall chimney pot.

From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Cahan, Abraham

"I have been sitting in front of the fire," replied the fat boy, who had indeed heated himself to the color of a new chimney pot in the course of an hour's nap.

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles

In both provinces chimneys are seen without the chimney pot.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

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