noun
- a passage or duct for smoke in a chimney.
- any duct or passage for air, gas, or the like.
- a tube, especially a large one, in a fire-tube boiler.
- Music.
noun
- downy matter; fluff.
noun
- a fishing net.
noun
- a shaft, tube, or pipe, esp as used in a chimney, to carry off smoke, gas, etc
- music the passage in an organ pipe or flute within which a vibrating air column is set upSee also flue pipe
noun
- loose fluffy matter; down
noun
- a type of fishing net
noun
- another word for fluke 1 (def. 1), fluke 1
“smoke channel in a chimney,” 1580s, perhaps related to 15c. word meaning “mouthpiece of a hunting horn,” or perhaps from Old English flowan “to flow,” and/or Old French fluie “stream.”