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noun

Flue n.

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.:

(a)

A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

(b)

A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.

(c)

(Steam Boiler) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.

In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

Flue boiler. See under Boiler.

Flue bridge, the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace.

Flue plate (Steam Boiler), a plate to which the ends of the flues are fastened; called also flue sheet, tube sheet, and tube plate.

Flue surface (Steam Boiler), the aggregate surface of flues exposed to flame or the hot gases.

Flue n. Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

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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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