chimney

IPA: tʃˈɪmni

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 hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
(Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
(vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
(Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.

(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

Examples of "chimney" in Sentences

We called a chimney professional to inspect the stove.
In particular, the combination bell-cote/chimney is quite fine.
A crackling wood fire was roaring up the chimney from the large stove in the kitchen.
But a carpet we have - though not yet spread, as the chimney is unfinished, and room incomplete.
Pouring from the top of this volcano, like smoke out of a factory chimney, is a rapidly spreading pall of what looks like steam.
If the average chimney is 20 feet long and there are, say, 100 million houses with children, how fast, I wondered aloud, would he have to whizz down each chimney in order to finish the job by dawn on Christmas Day?
My kitchen still needs an extreme makeover, but I manage to cook some gourmet meals with the one skillet and saucepan I have, (refusing to buy anything new til the stove is replaced and other things refurbished), and the bare chimney from a previous stove hanging meaninglessly from the ceiling, along with the old watermarks from leaks, and the peeling ceiling tiles.