lamp chimney

noun

a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp

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Examples from the Web for lamp chimney

Historical Examples

From below up the stairs came a sudden draught, and the flame leaped in the lamp-chimney.
None Other Gods
Robert Hugh Benson
There was everything in there, from a pepper-box to a mattress, and from a lamp-chimney to a Winchester rifle.
The Crest of the Continent
Ernest Ingersoll
How is it that a stick of sealing-wax or a lamp-chimney, when rubbed, attracts bits of paper or elder pith?
Mysterious Psychic Forces
Camille Flammarion
Four of them did not answer to the finger-print test, but the fifth showed a facsimile of the print on the lamp-chimney.
Policing the Plains
R.G. MacBeth
It was evidently felt in the engine-room as well, for Amundsen had a bottle and a lamp-chimney smashed.
Farthest North
Fridtjof Nansen

lamp chimney

Examples from the Web for lamp chimney

Historical Examples

From below up the stairs came a sudden draught, and the flame leaped in the lamp-chimney.

There was everything in there, from a pepper-box to a mattress, and from a lamp-chimney to a Winchester rifle.

How is it that a stick of sealing-wax or a lamp-chimney, when rubbed, attracts bits of paper or elder pith?

Four of them did not answer to the finger-print test, but the fifth showed a facsimile of the print on the lamp-chimney.

It was evidently felt in the engine-room as well, for Amundsen had a bottle and a lamp-chimney smashed.