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windway

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wind⋅way

  [wind-wey]
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–noun
1. a passage for air.
2. Music. flue 1 (def. 4b).
Origin:
1870–75; wind 1 + way 1

flue

1  [floo]
–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 
"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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