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lamp chimney

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lamp chimney
n
a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
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Noun1.lamp chimneylamp chimney - a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp
chimney
flue - a conduit to carry off smoke
kerosene lamp, kerosine lamp, oil lamp - a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light


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At the chemist's the lank shopman sealed up a packet of powders for a coachman who stood waiting, and refused him opium with the same callousness with which the doctor's footman had cleaned his lamp chimneys.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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