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Meanings of lamp chimney in English

Spanish
chimenea de quinqué

A glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp.

chimenea de quinqué
Usage of lamp chimney in English
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The lamp chimney hissed and spluttered and finally the light went out.
The Vanished Messenger
2
Kid Wolf rolled a cigarette and lighted it over the lamp chimney.
Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
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The world may be likened to the lamp chimney, whereas man is the light.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace
4
I hadn't got onto the lamp chimney trick.
Tales of the Road
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He has voyaged twice down the lamp chimney, as if it were the funnel of a steamship.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 / A Typographic Art Jo...
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Only a great moth, that had fluttered inside the lamp chimney thudded heavily from side to side.
A Village Ophelia and Other Stories
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Procure an ordinary lamp chimney and fit two or three thicknesses of cheese cloth over the end of it.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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I swung the marlinespike against the base of the lamp chimney, and the fo'c'sle was plunged into total blackness.
Man on the run
9
She ran over to a shelf that had escaped her notice, and the ill-fitting lamp chimney rattled as she moved.
The Canadian / Photoplay title of The Land of Promise
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It did more, for it flashed into Argand's mind the idea of the lamp chimney, by which his invention was perfected.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
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Is it not strange that our exceeding wickedness should have resulted in nothing save the memory of dust upon a lamp chimney?
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
12
There is a fresh, blue, cleansed appearance to the hills, "like a newly-washed lamp chimney," as Mr. Burroughs sometimes said.
Our Friend John Burroughs
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Her shoulders quivered with subdued laughter, the table and the lamp chimney shook, too, and tears from her eyes splashed on the letter.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
14
Garstaing drew a deep breath, and, returning his pipe to his capacious mouth ignited a match over the lamp chimney and re-lit it.
The Heart of Unaga
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Now place over the mouth of the bottle a lamp chimney, and insert in the chimney a strip of cardboard, thus dividing the passage.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
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Keep them for housecleaning, for washing windows and for washing lamp chimneys.
Things Mother Used to Make / A Collection of Old Time Recipes, S...
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