chimney money

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1.A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion. [1913 Webster]

4.(Min.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]

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. (Zool.) (a) An American swift (Ch[ae]ture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica).

Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot. [1913 Webster]

1.The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. [1913 Webster]

There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.— Jer. xxxvi. 22.[1913 Webster]

Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. [1913 Webster]

Household talk and phrases of the hearth.— Tennyson.

3.(Metal. & Manuf.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles; as, an open-hearth smelting furnace. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Hearth ends (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast.

Hearth money, Hearth penny [AS. heor[eth]pening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also chimney money, etc. [1913 Webster]

He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]