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flue1 n 1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a shaft, tube, or pipe, esp as used in a chimney, to carry off smoke, gas, etc. 2. (Music / Instruments) Music the passage in an organ pipe or flute within which a vibrating air column is set up See also flue pipe [of unknown origin] flue2 n loose fluffy matter; down [from Flemish vluwe, from Old French velu shaggy] flue3, flew [fluː] n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Fishing) a type of fishing net [Middle English, from Middle Dutch vlūwe] flue4 n
another word for fluke1 [1] [3] flued adj ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
flue Translations flue n → Rauchfang m, → Rauchabzug m; (Mus: of organ, = pipe) → Labialpfeife f; (= opening) → Kernspalt m; flue brush → Stoßbesen m How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thus the whole house might be said to have dissolved in smoke, and flown up among the clouds, through the great black flue of the kitchen chimney. Dirty finger-prints were on the hall-windows, flue and rubbish on its unwashed boards. Perchance, amid their proper element of smoke, which eddied forth from the ill-constructed chimney, the ghosts of departed cook-maids looked wonderingly on, or peeped down the great breadth of the flue, despising the simplicity of the projected meal, yet ineffectually pining to thrust their shadowy hands into each inchoate dish. |
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