Definition of Flues

1. Noun. (plural of flue) ¹

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Definition of Flues

1. flue [n] - See also: flue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flues

fluellen
fluellin
fluellins
fluellite
fluence
fluences
fluencies
fluency
fluent
fluent aphasia
fluently
fluentness
fluents
flueric
fluerics
flues (current term)
fluework
flueworks
fluey
flufenacet
flufenamic acid
fluff girls
fluff out
fluff up
fluffball
fluffed

Literary usage of Flues

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

1. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"In laying the can-flues, the ends of them mould reft upon a brick fet on edge ... It may be objected alfo, it is laid, to the can-flues, that they will cool ..."

2. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1861)
"When the kiln is charged, fire is applied at the flues marked A in section, and the flues B and C are stopped, the draught then being ..."

3. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"Each of these bed plates has three openings connected to flues, ... These flues are twenty-two inches wide, the division walls being nine inches thick and ..."

4. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1893)
"Stability and strength of boilers and boiler-flues. We shall conclude this chapter with an account of the stability and strength of boilers and boiler-flues ..."

5. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1887)
"The solid pillar i', between the flues ii, is continued to the top. Through this pillar passes the pipe connecting the pitch-cock a with the still, ..."

6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"flues above (i inches in diameter, up to and including 16 inches, ... When flues above 6 inches and not over 16 inches are made in sections not over 5 feet ..."

7. Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering by D. Appleton and Company, Oliver Byrne (1852)
"These flues open into a horizontal flue r. which is placed above tie low the water line of the boiler. Back of the furnace я, and near to the bottom of the ..."

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