Chimney vs Smokejack - What's the difference?
chimney | smokejack |
A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue.
* 1883:
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
(British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
A device for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
* 1871 (Thomas Hardy) "Desperate Remedies"
As nouns the difference between chimney and smokejack
is that chimney is a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue while smokejack is a device for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.As a verb chimney
is to negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.chimney
English
(wikipedia chimney)Noun
(en noun)- Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
Derived terms
* chimney pot * chimney stack * chimney sweep * chimney-money * chimney-dutyVerb
(en verb)See also
* cowl * fireplace * flaunching * flue * smokestack * stove English refractory feminine rhymessmokejack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Minute recurrent sounds prevailed -- the click of the smoke-jack , the flap of the flames, and the light touches of the women's slippers upon the floor.