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chimney

noun as in smokestack for building

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That night they begin to breach the domestic space, most terrifyingly by flying down the chimney of the Hockens’ cottage and attacking their sleeping children.

A sleeping 3-year-old boy died after being struck by a collapsing chimney in the Landers earthquake.

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Whether it was a serious crash, chimney fire or a cow trapped in a pond, when their pager went off, they were first on the scene.

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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".

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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.

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

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