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Chimney-sweep. World English Historical Dictionary

Chimney-sweep. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Chimney-sweep [see SWEEP v. and sb.]

1   † 1.  Phrase. The cry of a chimney-sweeper. Obs.

2 1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Cheminée, Haut & bas la cheminée, chimney-sweepe; the crie of chimney-sweepers.

3   2.  = CHIMNEY-SWEEPER 1. (Now also simply SWEEP.) Chimney-sweep’s cancer: see next, 1 b.

4 1727.  Swift, Descr. Morning. The small-coal man was heard with cadence deep, Till drown’d in shriller notes of chimney-sweep.

5 a. 1845.  Hood, Doves & Crows, iv. As fine as Chimney Sweeps in May.

6 1888.  Sir M. Mackenzie, Fredk. the Noble, 41. A particular form of cancer … formerly … common enough in England, is now almost extinct … ‘chimney sweep’s cancer.’

7   3.  The name of a fly used in salmon-fishing.

8 1867.  F. Francis, Angling, xii. (1880), 446. The Chimney Sweep … is the only thoroughly black fly I ever saw.

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