flue

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).

   “It has frequently been a subject of inquiry, whether the ancients were acquainted with chimneys, or open fire-places. In the houses discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, there are no chimneys; they all appear to have been warmed by furnaces and flues.”

2. isim An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
3. isim A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
4. isim In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
5. sıfat Alternative form of flew (“shallow, flat”).