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Definition of Lamp chimney

1. Noun. A glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamp Chimney

Literary usage of Lamp chimney

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

1. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1909)
"This was that of holding the lamp chimney, after lighting the lamp. ... So far as the account ran he might have turned the lamp chimney up and clasped it ..."

2. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1895)
"Lamp-chimney. A glass tube which incloses the flame of a lamp, ... Lamp-chimney bracket. A projecting metal arm attached to the side of a car and carrying a ..."

3. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1881)
"Lamp-chimney. A glass tube which incloses the flame of a lamp and which ... Lamp-chimney 'Bracket. A projecting metal arm attached to the side of a car by ..."

4. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley (1892)
"T.uik of water. в в. Moveable egg-tray. LL L. Lamp-chimney and fluc-pinc. v. Chimney for discharge of surplus с с. Water-tray. H. Tank thermometer. w. ..."

5. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Boverton Redwood, George Thomas Holloway (1896)
"The valve on the hydrogen cylinder is then adjusted so as to give a flame rather more than 10 millimetres (0-4 inch) in length, and the lamp chimney pushed ..."

6. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"There was broken glass in the parlor, where the lamp was said to have been upset, but nothing that seemed ever to have been part of a lamp chimney. ..."

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