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  • Chimney Sweeps' carcinoma — Chimney sweep s cancer called Soot wart, is a squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum. It has the distinction of being the first reported form of occupational cancer, and was initially identified by Percival Pott in 1775. The name came …   Wikipedia

  • Chimney Sweeps Islands — The Chimney Sweeps Islands are a pair of small islands located within New York City in the northern part of City Island Harbor in the borough of The Bronx. The islands, along with High Island, New York, divide City Island Harbor from Pelham Bay.… …   Wikipedia

  • chimney sweeps' cancer — a type of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum that was formerly common in chimney sweeps owing to skin irritation by soot. Called also soot c …   Medical dictionary

  • chimney-sweeps —    That sweeps bring luck is implied by the *Jack in the Green, known since the late 18th century, and is explicitly stated in many texts from the 1880s to the present. On seeing a sweep in the street in his working clothes and with his face… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

  • Chimney sweep — Chimney sweeper redirects here. For the geometer moth, see Odezia atrata. Chimney sweep in the 1850s A chimney sweep is a worker who clears ash and soot from chimneys. The chimney uses the pressure difference caused by a hot column of gas to… …   Wikipedia

  • chimney sweep — chimney sweeps also chimney sweep N COUNT A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys …   English dictionary

  • chimney sweep — noun or chimney sweeper 1. : one whose occupation is the removal of soot by means of scraper, brushes, or vacuum cleaner from the flues of a chimney and from pipes connecting with a furnace 2. dialect : chimney swift * * * noun, pl ⋯ sweeps… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Chimney Sweepers Act 1875 — The Chimney Sweepers Act 1875 was a British Act of Parliament that superseded the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act 1840 passed to try to stop child labour. The Bill was proposed by Lord Shaftesbury triggered by the death of twelve… …   Wikipedia

  • Chimney Sweepers Act 1788 — The Chimney Sweepers Act 1788 was a British Act of Parliament passed to try to stop child labour. Many boys as young as four were being used as chimney sweeps. This act stated that no boy should be bound apprentice before he was eight years old.… …   Wikipedia

  • Chimney — For other uses, see Chimney (disambiguation). Smokestack redirects here. For the 1963 avant garde jazz album, see Smokestack (album). The world s tallest chimney, of GRES 2 in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan. A chimney is a structure for venting hot flue… …   Wikipedia

  • Chimney Sweepers Act 1834 — The Chimney Sweepers Act 1834 was a British Act of Parliament passed to try to stop child labour. Many boys as young as six were being used as chimney sweeps. This act stated that an apprentice must express himself in front of a magistrate that… …   Wikipedia

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