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Flue

noun

Flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor. Synonym: fluke.

Organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip. Synonyms: flue pipe, labial pipe.

A conduit to carry off smoke.

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"Flue" Quotes from Famous Books

... has also much to do with waste of fuel. As stoves are generally constructed, it is necessary for the heat to pass over the top, down the back, and under the bottom of the oven before escaping into the flue, in order to properly heat the oven for baking. In order to force the heat to make this circuit, the direct draft of the stove needs to be closed. With this precaution observed, a quick fire from a small amount of fuel, used ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... herself in her most Rachel-like attitude and glanced knowingly at the hot-air flue which she had been told was ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... was close to the batteries a blaze suddenly shot up several feet above the chimneys. The soot had caught fire and the reflection was thrown far out on the water. The engineer immediately opened the flue caps and all was darkness again. So quickly did this singular glow come and vanish that it must have been mistaken by the sentinels for a part of the lightning display, for it caused no alarm; but the turning of the escape steam into the paddle-box had ...

— Dewey and Other Naval Commanders • Edward S. Ellis

... airing; cupboards for holding the various irons, starch, and other articles used in ironing; a hot-plate built in the chimney, with furnace beneath it for heating the irons; sometimes arranged with a flue for carrying the hot air round the room for drying. Where this is the case, however, there should be a funnel in the ceiling for ventilation and carrying off steam; but a better arrangement is to have a hot-air closet adjoining, heated by hot-air pipes, and ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... old oven, which was apparently contrived in the thickness of the wall, and having fallen into disuse, had been closed up with bricks in this manner. It was formed after the simple old-fashioned plan of oven-building—a mere oblate cavity without a flue. ...

— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

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