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1a structure through which smoke or steam is carried up away from a fire, etc. and through the roof of a building; the part of this that is above the roof He threw the paper onto the fire and it flew up the chimney. the factory chimneys of an industrial landscape
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- 2(technology) a narrow opening in an area of rock that a person can climb up
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