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ˈchimney-ˌsweeper
1. One whose business it is to sweep chimneys, in order to remove the soot.
c1500Cocke Lorell's B. (1843) 11 Chymney swepers, and costerde mongers. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 266 To look like her are Chimny-sweepers blacke. 1719D'Urfey Pills IV. 198 A Chimny-sweeper, with his Brooms, his Poles and Shackles. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 360 Dressed..like..English chimney-sweepers on May-day.
b. chimney-sweeper's cancer: ‘epithelioma of the scrotum, caused by the irritation of soot’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
2. A stiff radiating brush fixed on a long jointed rod, used for cleaning chimneys; a sweep's brush.
(Introduced in 1805 to supersede the use of climbing boys.)
3. Collector's name for a small black British moth (Tanagra chærophyllata).
So ˈchimney-sweeping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe 38 Such chimnie sweeping attributes of smoking and parching. 1650Venner Tobacco 412 Attended with Chimney-sweeping Lackeys. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, First of May, Chimney-sweeping had become a favorite..pursuit. |