flue : Idioms & Phrases

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Flue boiler

  • . See under Boiler.
Webster 1913

Flue bridge

  • the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace.
Webster 1913

flue pipe

  • noun organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
    flue; labial pipe.
WordNet

Flue plate

  • (Steam Boiler), a plate to which the ends of the flues are fastened; called also flue sheet, tube sheet, and tube plate.
Webster 1913

flue stop

  • noun an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe
WordNet

Flue surface

  • (Steam Boiler), the aggregate surface of flues exposed to flame or the hot gases.
Webster 1913

Return flue

  • in a steam boiler, a flue which conducts flame or gases of combustion in a direction contrary to their previous movement in another flue.
Webster 1913