Chimney vs Thrutch - What's the difference?
chimney | thrutch |
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.
(rare, or, dialectal) To push; press.
To crowd; throng; squeeze.
(figuratively) To trouble; oppress.
To thrust.
To push, press, or squeeze into a place; move sideways or vertically in an upright position by wriggling the body against opposing rock surfaces. Compare chimney.
An obstacle overcome by thrutching; an act of thrutching (See verb #5)
A narrow gorge or ravine.
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As nouns the difference between chimney and thrutch
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 thrutch is an obstacle overcome by thrutching; an act of thrutching (see verb #5).As verbs the difference between chimney and thrutch
is that chimney is (climbing) to negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc while thrutch is (rare|or|dialectal) to push; press.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 rhymesthrutch
English
Verb
- I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle.
