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flue

1  [floo]
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–noun
1. a passage or duct for smoke in a chimney.
2. any duct or passage for air, gas, or the like.
3. a tube, esp. a large one, in a fire-tube boiler.
4. Music.
a. flue pipe.
b. Also called windway. a narrow slit in the upper end of an organ pipe through which the air current is directed.
Origin:
1555–65; earlier flew, perh. repr. OE flēwsa a flowing, the form flews being taken as pl.
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flue

2  [floo]
–noun
downy matter; fluff.
Origin:
1580–90; perh. to be identified with OE flug- (in flugol swift, fleeting); akin to fly 1 . Compare LG flug

flue

3  [floo]
–noun
a fishing net.
Also, flew.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME flowe; cf. MD vluwe fishing net
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flue 1   (flōō)   
n.  

  1. A pipe, tube, or channel for conveying hot air, gas, steam, or smoke, as from a furnace or fireplace to a chimney.

  2. Music

    1. An organ pipe sounded by means of a current of air striking a lip in the side of the pipe and causing the air within to vibrate. Also called labial.

    2. The lipped opening in such a pipe.


[Origin unknown.]
flue 2   (flōō)   
n.  A fishing net.

[Middle English, from Middle Dutch vlūwe; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

flue 
"smoke channel in a chimney," 1582, perhaps related to 15c. word meaning "mouthpiece of a hunting horn," or perhaps from O.E. flowan "to flow," and/or O.Fr. fluie "stream."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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