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flue noun2. [flu:] LME.
[Origin unkn.]
The mouthpiece of a hunting horn. Only in LME.
Orig., a chimney. Now, a smoke-duct in a chimney, a duct allowing the exit of hot gases from a furnace etc.; a channel for conveying heat, esp. a hot-air passage in a wall; a tube for heating water in some kinds of boiler. L16.
N. Gordimer Like torn paper drawn up a flue by the draught of flames.
The spout in a pawn shop. slang. E19.
in flue in pawn. up the flue (a) in pawn; (b) in a bad way, lost, dead.
The airway of a flue-pipe in an organ. L19.
Comb.: flue-boiler a boiler whose water-space is traversed by flues; flue-brush a round or cylindrical brush of stiff bristle or wire for cleaning the inside of a chimney or flue; flue-cure verb trans. cure (tobacco) by artificial heat from flues; flue-dust dust which collects in the flue of a furnace; spec. metalliferous dust collected in the flue of a metallurgical furnace; flue-gas any mixture of gases from the flues of chemical or smelting factories; flue-pipe an organ-pipe into which air enters directly, i.e. without striking a reed; flue-stop an organ-stop controlling a flue-register; flue-work the flue-stops of an organ collectively.
flued ppl adjective having a flue or duct E19.
flueless adjective without a flue E20.