chimney

🇺🇸 /ˈtʃɪmni/ 🇬🇧 /ˈtʃɪmni/
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noun
R

A pipe or structure that carries smoke from a fire up and out of a building.

Smoke from the fireplace goes up the chimney and out of the house.

R

A narrow crack in rock that people can climb up.

The climber squeezed through the narrow chimney in the rock wall.

translation

n. A pipe or structure that carries smoke from a fire up and out of a building.; A narrow crack in rock that people can climb up.

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Plural chimneys