单词 | chimney-top |
释义 | chimney-topn. 1. The part of a chimney that rises above the roof, or more particularly the flat upper surface of this. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > part above building chimneyc1400 chimney-tun1600 chimney-topa1616 chimney-shaft1662 lum1697 chimney-stalk1828 chimney-head1837 a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 39 To Towres and Windowes? Yea, to Chimney tops . View more context for this quotation 1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve iii, in Poems (new ed.) 96 Till Charles's wain came out above the tall white chimneytops. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 949 at Chimney The part which rises above the roof, for discharging the smoke into the air, is called a chimney shaft, whose horizontal upper surface is termed the chimney-top. 2. In an organ: = chimney n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > chimney chimney-top1874 chimney1876 1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1616 |
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