Flue

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  • noun. A fishing net.
  • noun. A pipe, tube, or channel for conveying hot air, gas, steam, or smoke, as from a furnace or fireplace to a chimney.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An organ pipe sounded by means of a current of air striking a lip in the side of the pipe and causing the air within to vibrate.
  • noun. The lipped opening in such a pipe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Shallow.
  • noun. In whaling, the fluke or barb of a harpoon.
  • noun. A money of account of Morocco, of the value of one twenty-fifth of an English penny, or one thirteenth of a cent.
  • noun. Influenza.
  • noun. Down or nap; waste downy matter, abounding in spinneries, lint-factories, etc.; downy refuse; fine hair, feathers, flocks of cotton, etc., that cling to clothes.
  • noun. A duct for the conveyance of air, smoke, heat, or gases.
  • noun. A pipe or tube for conveying heat to water in certain kinds of steam-boilers.
  • noun. A passage in a wall for the purpose of conducting heated air from one part of a building to another.
  • noun. [See etym.] The winding hollow of a sea-shell.
  • noun. In organ-building, a flute-pipe as distinguished from a mouth-pipe or reed-pipe.
  • noun. The coping of a gable or end-wall of a house, etc.
  • To expand or splay, as the jambs of a window.
  • noun. A fishing-net, stationary or used as a drag-net.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
  • noun. An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage.
  • noun. A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
  • noun. A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
  • noun. A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
  • noun. In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
  • noun. See under Boiler.
  • noun. the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace.
  • noun. a plate to which the ends of the flues are fastened; -- called also flue sheet, tube sheet, and tube plate.
  • noun. the aggregate surface of flues exposed to flame or the hot gases.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
  • noun. An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
  • noun. organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
  • noun. a conduit to carry off smoke
  • Word Usage
    "The arrows show its descent through these flues, from which it obliquely strikes and passes over the flue-plate, then under it, and then out through the centre back-flue, which is open at the bottom, up into the smoke-pipe."
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