1. The part of a chimney that rises above the roof, or more particularly the flat upper surface of this.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., I. i. 44. To Towres and Windowes? Yea, to Chimney tops.
1832. Tennyson, May Queen, New Year’s Eve, iii. Till Charles’s Wain came out above the tall white chimney-tops.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss. s.v. Chimney, The part which rises above the roof, for discharging the smoke into the air, is called a chimney-shaft, whose horizontal upper surface is termed the chimney-top.
2. In an organ: = CHIMNEY 7.
1874. in Knight, Dict. Mechanics.
