Chimney

n.	1.	A fireplace or hearth.
	2.	That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. - Milton.
	3.	A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
	4.	(Min.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Chimney board a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. Chimney cap a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. Chimney corner the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. Chimney hook a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, Chimney money hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. Chimney pot (Arch.) a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. Chimney swallow a - (Zool.) An American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. b - In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica). Chimney sweep one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.

Noun	1.	chimney - a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building
	2.	chimney - a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp Synonyms: lamp chimney

To see a chimney in your dream, represents warmth, tradition, and family values. Alternatively, a chimney is symbolic of a phallic symbol. Thus, to see the chimney collapse implies impotence. To dream that you are sweeping the chimney, indicates your need to vent off your frustrations and get things out in the open. You need to release all that negativity and/or guilt that you are holding in.abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney corner, chink, chute, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, country rock, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dell, deposit, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, fireside, fissure, flaw, flue, flue pipe, flume, fracture, fumarole, funnel, furrow, gangue, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hearth, hearthstone, hob, hole, hub, incision, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, joint, kloof, leak, lode, lodestuff, matrix, mineral deposit, moat, notch, nullah, opening, ore bed, pass, passage, pay dirt, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shoot, slit, slot, smokehole, smokeshaft, smokestack, split, stack, stock, stovepipe, trench, valley, vein, void, wadi

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