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Definition of Chimneys

1. chimney [n] - See also: chimney

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chimneys

Literary usage of Chimneys

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"chimneys BY W. STUART TAIT chimneys serve two purposes. One purpose is to create the required draft for proper combustion of fuel; the other purpose is to ..."

2. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906: And Their Effects by Grove Karl Gilbert, Joseph Austin Holmes, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, Frank Soulé (1907)
"chimneys. chimneys seemed to be shaken down by the earthquake everywhere ... The chimneys, as a rule, were built of bricks laid in lime mortar, ..."

3. The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"CRACKS IN WALLS AND chimneys. In Mallet's great report on the Neapolitan earthquake of 1857 he assumed that the waves were propagated thru buildings just as ..."

4. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1921)
"STEEL chimneys AND THEIR LININGS IN COPPER SMELTING PLANTS Steel chimneys and ... Some of these chimneys show no deterioration after twenty years, ..."

5. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Very high chimneys are more expensive than lower chimneys producing the same draft. chimneys, therefore, over 150 ft. in height, need only be used at ..."

6. Principles of Reinforced Concrete Construction by Frederick Eugene Turneaure, Edward Rose Maurer (1909)
"Over 400 reinforced-concrete chimneys have already been built in America, ... 131 represents the general features of such chimneys as usually built; ..."

7. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1913)
"Self-sustaining Steel chimneys. — Steel chimneys over 52 inches aeter are ... In chimneys up aches internal diameter, the upper course is 4| inches thick ..."

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