chimney pot

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. an earthenware or metal pipe or deflector, often cylindrical, fitted on the top of a chimney to increase draft and reduce or disperse smoke.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chimney pot¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Flying above the hive, she can make out certain features — a tree, a house, a chimney pot; the rest is indistinct.

From New York Times

Flying above the hive, she can make out certain features — a tree, a house, a chimney pot; the rest is indistinct.

From New York Times

Because it was nearly dusk and suppertime, blue smoke rose from every chimney pot in the village they had left, and in the low places mist began to rise.

From Literature

And “Dawn Chorus,” with Yorke's low, breathy vocals over a halting keyboard pattern, is one of the prettiest things he’s ever written — a strangely tender ballad delivered from “the middle of the vortex,” as he puts it, where “soot from the chimney pot” forms “spiral patterns of you, my love.”

From Los Angeles Times

Previous Christmases have seen the box wrapped as a present, a chimney pot and also transformed into a bauble.

From BBC

Related Words

• fireplace
• flue
• furnace
• hearth
• pipe
• stack
• vent