- chimney cowl. These metal shelters over chimney pots prevented the occasional flan of wind from blowing smoke down the chimney and into the room. So the observation in The Looker-on, by Neil Munro (1930) does not require the attendance of the emergency services: There's a “granny” on a lum [chimney] up there that’s jist hingin’ by a wire.
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