[ˈtʃɪmni], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a vertical channel or pipe which conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building
(e.g: a coal fire thrust yellow flames up the chimney)

- a glass tube protecting the flame of a lamp
(e.g: he trimmed the wick and put the glass chimney over the flame)

- a very steep narrow cleft by which a rock face may be climbed
(e.g: he slid fifty feet down a chimney, and became wedged there)


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Origin:
Middle English (denoting a fireplace or furnace): from Old French cheminee ‘chimney, fireplace’, from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, from Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’, from Greek kaminos ‘oven’