ˈchimney-top
1. The part of a chimney that rises above the roof, or more particularly the flat upper surface of this.
| 1601 Shakes. Jul. C. i. i. 44 To Towres and Windowes? Yea, to Chimney tops. 1832 Tennyson May Queen, New-Year's Eve iii, Till Charles's Wain came out above the tall white chimney-tops. 1876 Gwilt Archit. Gloss. s.v. Chimney, The part which rises above the roof, for discharging the smoke into the air, is called a chimney-shaft, whose horizontal upper surface is termed the chimney-top. |
2. In an organ: = chimney 7.
| 1874 in Knight Dict. Mechanics. |