CHIMNEY

noun (plural ~s) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French chiminee, from Late Latin caminata, from Latin caminus furnace, fireplace, from Greek kaminos; perhaps akin to Greek kamara vault Date: 14th century fireplace , hearth , a vertical structure incorporated into a building and enclosing a flue or flues that carry off smoke, smokestack , a tube usually of glass placed around a flame (as of a lamp), something resembling a ~: as, a narrow cleft or passage in rock, a tall column of rock on the ocean floor that is formed by the precipitation of minerals from superheated water issuing from a vent in the earth's crust and rising through the column of rock, ~like adjective