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Flue   /flu/   Listen
Flue

noun
1.
Flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor.  Synonym: fluke.
2.
Organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip.  Synonyms: flue pipe, labial pipe.
3.
A conduit to carry off smoke.



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"Flue" Quotes from Famous Books



... seed must all be dried by fire heat. Our dry-houses are 30 x 20 feet, and 18 feet high with 2 x 6 inch joists running across the houses in tiers, on which we hang the seeds for drying. A brick furnace is built in the middle of the house, with the flue running ...
— The Cauliflower • A. A. Crozier
... have a good stove they won't sell it," replied Jack. "You will likely find a second-hand flue in it, or a rubber hose leader. Those boys are brilliant. If we need a new stove let it be from Duke's, with a ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
... cause of these irregularities, I placed a considerable portion of the length of the pipe which conveyed the steam from the boiler to the engine within the highly heated side flue of the boiler, so that any portion of water in the liquid form which might chance to pass along with the steam, might, ere it reached the cylinder, traverse this highly-heated steam pipe, and, in doing so, be converted into perfectly dry steam, ...
— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth
... the bed-plate or grate-plate in such a manner that the same shall form a support for the grate and brick-work of the chamber of combustion, as well as the bed of the front flue. ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... it will be practicable to build a fire-place in the large lower hall. Another chimney would be an unsightly appendage to the roof, but Clara agrees with me, since studying the plan of the house I brought on for her inspection, that a flue could be run through the closet in your room into the rear one of the west chimneys. She thinks the hall must be freezing cold in winter, and caught eagerly at my idea that a blazing fire at one end would lighten the sombre ...
— At Last • Marion Harland


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