Flues is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLUES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FLUE, 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an enclosed passageway for directing a current

Words related to FLUES

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How to use FLUES in a sentence

• When the combustion is slow, the heat in the furnaces and flues is less intense, and a larger amount of heating surface consequently becomes necessary to absorb the heat.
• The smoke and flame pass among the tubes up through flues.
• LEAKY FLUES What makes flues leak? I asked this question once, and the answer was that the flues were not large enough to fill up the hole in flue sheet.
• Flues may leak from several causes, but usually it can be traced to the carelessness of some one.
• Be careful to use your hammer lightly, so as not to bruise the flues or sheet.
• If your flues have been leaking badly, and you have expanded them, it would be well to test your boiler with cold water pressure to make sure that you have a good job.
• For instance, if your safety valve is set at one hundred and ten pounds, this pressure of cold water will be sufficient to test the flues.
• Now, suppose you are out in the field and want to test your flues.
• When the water begins to escape at the safety valve, you can readily see if you have expanded your flues sufficiently to keep them from leaking.
• These tests, however, are only for the purpose of trying your flues and are not intended to ascertain the efficiency or strength of your boiler.
• It might crack the side sheets, and would most certainly start the flues.
• Under the floors ran flues through which the kitchen smoke escaped, warming the sleeping- room in its passage.
• The first requisite is an airy room, capable of constant ventilation, either by the windows, doors, or flues, or by all.
• In the house sold he had placed a furnace against the party wall of the cellar, and from its hot air chamber he had constructed flues to heat his own domicile.
• It makes its exit by a central hole in the floor, and thence rises by flues to a common opening above.
• The method of warming apartments by flues, and ventilating them, as now practised, was known to the inhabitants of Pompeii.
• These are used for lining furnaces, ovens, flues, etc.
• The principal loss is by hot gases escaping from the flues to the chimney.
• The fire passes under the boiler, and enters the flues at the back end, passes through the flues, and enters the smoke stack at the front end.
• All such details as these should be planned when the building is commenced, so that the several flues may be provided as the building proceeds.
• The chimney is carried out in three separate flues, sufficiently marked by the partitions above the roof.
• The chimneys are carried out with partition flues, and may be topped with square caps, as necessity or taste may demand.
• To curl, draw the flues, a very few at a time, over a blunt knife.
• It was built of brick! Beneath it were pipes or flues connected with other pipes which ran beneath the whole house.
• Through these flues were forced currents of hot air from a blaze in a large fireplace at one end of the house.
• The wheels of the locomotive clogged, the flues filled with snow, the wet fuel all but extinguished the fire.
• Powerful, of 12,000 tons displacement, with four huge flues and two immense military masts, presided at Hongkong under orders to visit Manila.
• It would be easy to keep other flues warmed in cold weather by steam-pipes, but in summer you will have no steam for heating purposes.
• To build the chimneys with double or eight-inch walls makes them very large, more expensive, and still not as good as when they contain the smooth round flues.
• If we happen to want a window where the chimney stands in an outer wall we will make one between the flues, as one might build a hut in the huge branches of a mighty oak.

Similar words containing FLUE without suffix s

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