Flue
[fluː] or [flu]
Definition
(n.) An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
(n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
(n.) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
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Definition
adj. (prov.) shallow flat.—Also Flew.
n. a smoke-pipe or small chimney.
n. light down: soft down or fur.—adj. Flu′ey.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
An escape for hot air.
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Examples
- John Stevens of New Jersey was also at work on a steamboat, and had in 1804 built such a boat at his shops, having a screw propeller and a flue boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It had a cylindrical boiler, eight feet long and thirty-four inches in diameter, with an internal flue tube passing through it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the 18th century Smeaton devised the horizontal lengthened cylindrical boiler traversed by a flue. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The blast pipe comes through the wall, and enters the fire through a flue which slants downward. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Fresh air from outside enters a flue at the right, passes the radiator, where it is warmed, and then makes its way to the room through a flue at the left. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The _hypocaust_ was a hot-air furnace built in the basement or cellar of the house and from which the heat was conducted by flues to the bath rooms and other apartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nathan Read of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791, invented a tubular boiler in which the flues and gases are conducted through tubes passing through the boiler into the smokestack. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Open heat spaces were left between the two flues. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This warm fresh air then passes through ordinary flues to the rooms above. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The boiler was 30 inches in diameter and had 72 copper flues 1? inches in diameter, 7 feet long. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Oliver Evans followed with two longitudinal flues. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As the excessively hot water gas passes through the boiler flues it furnishes the necessary heat to generate the steam. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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