chimneypot
Britishnoun
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Dorking was a dapper little man, almost dissociable from gloves and a chimneypot.
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He was a gaunt, melancholy figure, elongated to over six feet, and still further exaggerated by a rusty top-hat of the tallest possible chimneypot, and a threadbare frockcoat of the longest possible tails.
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Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation "chimneypot."
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When they again reached the deck they found that Daimur had been right about the witch, for she had climbed to the roof of the Magician's house and was standing on the tallest chimneypot.
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But one day when we put our hands on Dr. Scott's chimneypot to make it turn, that was too much for her.
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