chimley

plural chimleys · alternative chimly

1. AppalachiaCaribbeanNew EnglandUKalternativedialectalAlternative form of chimney.

   ‘She bloodywell must believe in Santa Claus the way she hangs round that chimley.’

   1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 106

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   There was, as I was observing, betewkst 49 or 50 of us in the two rooms, very pleasant and neighbour-like together, taking a tumbler of punch to sarve Nick Moran's new house, I mean the new ould house, bekase he had to buy windy's and to put up a chimley.

   1831 August 11, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 4, column 1

   "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."

   1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

1. obsoleteObsolete form of Chulmleigh.

   CHIDLEY, or Chimley, a market-town of Devonſhire, about eighteen miles north-weſt of Exeter...

   1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183