chimney stack

noun

chimney stack

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1

Architecture A 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:

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