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chimney's afire en · X

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  1. A phrase shouted when blood gushes out of a whale's blowhole after a killing blow is struck with a lance
    • Success would show itself as a geyser of crimson blood gushing from the whale’s blowhole, which caused whalemen to cry out, ‘Chimney’s afire!’ 2015 December 14, Nathaniel Philbrick, “How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World”, in Smithsonian Magazine:

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