Meanings
nounchimney stack (plural chimney stacks)
plural chimney stacks · alternative chimneystack
- architectureA vertical structure, normally of brick, rising from a roof, containing one or more flues, each one terminating in a chimney pot.
The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.
1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11
Translations
Hungarian kürtő
- kürtőstructure containing flue(s)
Irish simléar, stoc simléir
- simléarstructure containing flue(s)
- stoc simléirstructure containing flue(s)
Scottish Gaelic binneag
- binneagstructure containing flue(s)
Swedish skorsten, fabriksskorsten
- skorstenstructure containing flue(s)
- fabriksskorstenstructure containing flue(s)
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