chimneypot

British  

/ ˈtʃɪmnɪˌpɒt /

noun

1. a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards

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Example Sentences

Mr. Churchill loves fine clothes, silk underwear, cream-colored pajamas, soft linen handerkerchiefs, grey suede gloves, chimneypot hats and lounge suits with a sly pin stripe.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are civilians in black cape-coats of the military pattern, topped off with cold, uncomfortable, but fashionable chimneypot hats, or, more sensibly, with high caps of beaver.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The German went out to pick up the battered chimneypot which had fallen before the door.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation "chimneypot."

From The Toilers of the Field by Jefferies, Richard

In the street without we heard the crash of a fallen chimneypot.

From The Betrayal by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)