chimney
noun
[ ˈtʃɪmni ]
• a vertical channel or pipe which conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building.
• "a coal fire thrust yellow flames up the chimney"
• a glass tube protecting the flame of a lamp.
• "he trimmed the wick and put the glass chimney over the flame"
• a very steep narrow cleft by which a rock face may be climbed.
• "he slid fifty feet down a chimney, and became wedged there"
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a fireplace or furnace): from Old French cheminee ‘chimney, fireplace’, from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, from Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’, from Greek kaminos ‘oven’.
