† chimney-stockn.Obsolete (?) one of the upright sides of a chimney or grate.
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1602 T. HeywoodHow Man may chuse Good Wifeiii. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 54 He had a pound of soap to scour his face, And yet his brow looks like the Chimney-stock.
1652 J. GauleΠυς-μαντια 181 The crickets chirping behind the chimney stock.