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lamp chimney

noun

  1. a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp


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This caused the lamp chimney to smoke and foul itself with soot.

“It would look like a revolution,” added the pyrotechnician negligently, as he lighted a cigarette in the lamp chimney.

How is it that a stick of sealing-wax or a lamp-chimney, when rubbed, attracts bits of paper or elder pith?

Broken glass gritted under hammering bootheels, as the shards of lamp-chimney were ground fine.

The lamp chimney hissed and spluttered and finally the light went out.

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