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noun

Flue n.

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.:

(a)

A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

(b)

A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.

(c)

(Steam Boiler) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.

In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

Flue boiler. See under Boiler.

Flue bridge, the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace.

Flue plate (Steam Boiler), a plate to which the ends of the flues are fastened; called also flue sheet, tube sheet, and tube plate.

Flue surface (Steam Boiler), the aggregate surface of flues exposed to flame or the hot gases.

Flue n. Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

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"Flue" Quotes from Famous Books

... these days young people must decide for themselves.' I said that because I didn't want Mrs. Vyse to think us old-fashioned. She goes in for lectures and improving her mind, and all the time a thick layer of flue under the beds, and the maid's dirty thumb-marks where you turn on the electric light. ...

— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster

... Long ago departed southward? I will go into his wigwam, I will put his smouldering fire out!" And at night Kabibonokka, To the lodge came wild and wailing, Heaped the snow in drifts about it, Shouted down into the smoke-flue, Shook the lodge-poles in his fury, Flapped the curtain of the door-way. Shingebis, the diver, feared not, Shingebis, the diver, cared not; Four great logs had he for firewood, One for each moon of the winter, And for food the fishes ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... Alice was promptly introduced. He reminded her very forcibly of her old acquaintance Bill the Lizard, but she was not sure enough on this point to recall their previous meeting when she had so tactlessly kicked him up through the chimney flue of ...

— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs

... at the old-fashioned fireplace in his prison room. Two men could have crawled up its flue ...

— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon

... perfectly tight, no passage being left open for the air to enter except the key-hole, and even that is frequently closed by a little dropping shutter. In this case it is evident that there can be no regular current through the flue of the chimney, as any air escaping from its aperture would cause an exhaustion in the air of the room similar to that in the receiver of an air-pump, and therefore an equal quantity of air would rush down the flue to restore ...

— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

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