Flue is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLUE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a smoke-duct in a chimney
• a duct for smoke and waste gases produced by a fire, a gas heater, a power station, or other fuel-burning installation.
• a channel for conveying heat.
• passage or pipe for smoke or hot air
• An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
• A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
• A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
• 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.
• Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
• flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
• organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
• a conduit to carry off smoke
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an enclosed passageway for directing a current

Words related to FLUE

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How to use FLUE in a sentence

• It was a big, open flue, and free from any suggestion of hiding places, or corners.
• Most factories furnish with each engine a flue cleaner and rod.
• About what amount of heating and grate surface is required per horse power in a flue boiler.
• What would you consider a fair evaporation in a flue boiler? A.
• A cheerful fire was burning in the grate, the flue of which had been ingeniously diverted by Sin Sin Wa so that the smoke issued from a chimney of the adjoining premises.
• The pipes, M and N, are likewise closed, while the flue, E, is opened.
• The chimney flue must have an enormous supply of air, and it simply draws it from the most easily accessible places.
• It is said to be hollow, and has, indeed, somewhat the appearance of a narrow chimney flue.
• Flue bricks, for the passage of smoke under floors and in other situations, are sometimes found.
• When the origin of this fire came to be traced out, it was found that it was due to one brick being left out in a flue.
• It is the picture of a peaceful condition with a holy man at the head of affairs, like Nicolas von der Flue in Switzerland.
• I grasped the rudder ropes and aimed at a point where the sinuous current sucked through a passage in the rocks like a lean flame through a windy flue.
• It is also desirable from an aesthetic point of view, for a number of single flue chimneys sticking up from various parts of the roof would appear most unsightly.
• A chimney stands in the center of the inner wall of the library, in which may be a fireplace, or a flue to receive a stovepipe, whichever may be preferred for warming the room.
• By the side of the fireplace, with a flue entering the chimney, was a great brick oven, big enough to bake all the bread needed by a large family for a week or ten days.
• Rufus hewed out and jammed together a little two by twice Cabin with the Flue running up the outside.
• This structure serves to support the body of the flue, usually with an intervening stone-covered space forming a shelf.
• At the present period the flue is usually built of thin sandstone slabs, rudely adjusted to afford mutual support.
• Joe found her there, the chair displaying its usual tendency to climb the chimney flue, and stood in the doorway, looking at her with haunted, hungry eyes.
• Let a smoke pipe from the boiler enter the chimney and extend up inside the flue far enough to heat the same.
• Thank goodness, he is! Then they talked more about the fire, which, it seems, happened through something being wrong with a flue, in a room where Mrs.
• The great logs in the rough stone chimney crackled and snapped, and up the flue roared the blaze.
• From this the smoke was carried off by a flue, constituting to all intents and purposes a chimney.
• A few sticks were burning in the wide, old-fashioned fireplace, but the flames looked pale under the bright light that streamed down upon them through the broad, straight flue.
• This effect is prevented by heating, in any convenient way, the tube or flue through which the foul air escapes.
• The smoke flue for a coal fire may also be smaller, the hotter fire causing the stronger draught.
• An open fire-place will secure this, provided the flue is kept warm by heat from the kitchen fire, or some other during seasons when the fire-place is not used.

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