Flue

/fluː/ · noun

Meaning

A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace)..

Definitions by Sense

1. A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
2. An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
3. (obsolete, countable and uncountable) A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
4. In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
5. (UK, dialect) Alternative form of flew (“shallow, flat”).

Example Sentences

It has frequently been a subject of inquiry, whether the ancients were acquainted with chimneys, or open fire-places. In the houses discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, there are no chimneys; they all appear to have been warmed by furnaces and flues.

Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here.

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• flues
• more flue
• most flue

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