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chimney

noun as in smokestack for building

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He described it as a bioethanol fireplace that does not need a chimney flue, where liquid is poured on to a cotton gauze to create a "candle effect".

From BBC

Greenpeace said eight activists had scaled two of the chimney stacks at Staythorpe Power Station near Newark in a protest over the role gas plays in setting electricity prices.

From BBC

A massive bolt struck the metal chimney, raced down the pipe and tore into MacLeod’s right shoulder.

"There's a letter rack, ashtrays and even a tiny little sunroof - but it's not a sunroof at all, it's a chimney, because in 1925 everyone was smoking."

From BBC

The chimney was located atop a former Boy Scouts meeting house currently used as public works department storage, according to Salcedo.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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