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noun

Flue n.

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.:

(a)

A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

(b)

A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.

(c)

(Steam Boiler) 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.

In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

Flue boiler. See under Boiler.

Flue bridge, the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace.

Flue plate (Steam Boiler), a plate to which the ends of the flues are fastened; called also flue sheet, tube sheet, and tube plate.

Flue surface (Steam Boiler), the aggregate surface of flues exposed to flame or the hot gases.

Flue n. Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

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"Flue" Quotes from Famous Books

... night in the world in which the child lives. Anything is possible. If father and mother and nurse tell the child about Santa Claus coming down the chimney with a pack of toys on his back, it does not occur to the child to note the fact that the chimney flue is no more than six inches in diameter, and that Santa Claus and his pack could not possibly pass through such an opening. All this is beyond the range or thought of the stage of development at which the ...

— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage

... faint attempt at prayer. Again she whistled, and shouted "Skynde pa!—Faster! faster!" and then she cracked the most startling and incomprehensible Norwegian melodies with the whip, absolutely stunning my ears, while she shouted "Gaae! Flue! Reise!—Go it! Fly! Travel!" Faster and still faster we flew down the frightful hill. The pony caught the infection of enthusiasm, and now broke into a frantic run. "Faster! faster!" shrieked the wild girl ...

— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne

... went to bed at night, away up stairs, His Mammy heerd him holler, an' his Daddy heerd him bawl, An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all! An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby-hole, an' press, An' seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an' ever'wheres, I guess; But all they found was thist his pants an' roundabout—: An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you ...

— Afterwhiles • James Whitcomb Riley

... to which he had to fix the flue was in the middle of the roof. Gervaise, who was no longer uneasy, continued to smile as she followed his movements. Nana, amused all on a sudden by the view of her father, clapped her little hands. She had seated herself on the pavement to ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... and aimed at a point where the sinuous current sucked through a passage in the rocks like a lean flame through a windy flue. Did you ever hear music that made you see purple? It was that sort of purple I saw (or did I hear it like music?) when we plunged under full speed into the first suck of the rapids. We seemed a conscious arrow hurled through a gray, writhing world, the light of which was noise. And then, suddenly, ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

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