lamp chimney

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noun

a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp

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Words nearby lamp chimney

lampad, lampadaire, Lampang, lampas, lampblack, lamp chimney, Lampedusa, lamper eel, lampern, lampers, lampion

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How to use lamp chimney in a sentence

This caused the lamp chimney to smoke and foul itself with soot.
From Place to Place|Irvin S. Cobb
“It would look like a revolution,” added the pyrotechnician negligently, as he lighted a cigarette in the lamp chimney.
The Reign of Greed|Jose Rizal
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
Broken glass gritted under hammering bootheels, as the shards of lamp-chimney were ground fine.
Cursed|George Allan England

The lamp chimney hissed and spluttered and finally the light went out.
The Vanished Messenger|E. Phillips Oppenheim