stick-chimney

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

In newly settled parts of the country, where log-houses form the first habitations of the settlers, the chimneys are made with sticks from one to two inches square, and about two feet in length, which are laid crosswise and cemented with clay or mud. The fire-places are built of rough stone, and the stick-chimneys are merely the conductors of the smoke.


The stick-chimney [of this house] was like its owner's hat, open at the top, and jammed in at the sides.--Mrs. Clavers's Western Clearings, p. 7.

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