noun
- plural of chimley, a dialectal or nonstandard variant of chimney
Usage: dialectal; nonstandard
Examples
- The old farmhouse had two brick chimleys on the roof.
- Smoke was coming out of both chimleys during the cold winter morning.
- The mason repaired the cracked chimleys before the next storm.
- Santa would have trouble fitting down those narrow chimleys.
- The village houses all had tall stone chimleys.