ˈchimney-pot
1. A cylindrical (sometimes prismatic or square-shaped) pipe of earthenware, sheet-metal, etc., fitted on the top of a chimney-shaft, to increase the up-draught and carry off the smoke: a chimney-can.
| 1830 Tennyson Poems 13 Why a church is with a steeple built; And a house with a chimneypot? 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 829/2 The painter has left his garret among the London chimney-pots. |
2. chimney-pot hat: a colloquial name for the cylindrical black silk hat worn by men in the latter part of the 19th c. Also ellipt. chimney-pot. Now rare.
| 1851 Expositor 4 Jan. 145/1 The absurdity of the ‘Chimney-pot’ and ‘Coal-scuttle’ covering for the head at present in use. 1862 Trollope Rachel Ray II. xii. 244 Middle-aged men..in swallow-tailed coats and black trousers, with chimney-pot hats. 1868 Mask Apr. 87 The chimney-pot hat, the ugliest European head-dress known. 1874 L. Carr J. Gwynne I. i. 33 So off went that penitential chimney-pot leaving such a great red line round his forehead. 1885 Graphic 14 Feb. 165/3 Wearing a chimney-pot hat and a white rosette. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 10/1 The chimney-pot is so called because in Germany only the sweeps wear them. |