Definition of "chimney-pot" [chimney-pot]

• A nearly cylindrical pipe of earthenware, brick, or sheet-metal placed on the top of a chimney to increase the draft and prevent smoking. Also called chimney-can. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this."
• "Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky."
• "They emitted so dense a cloud of dark, smelly oil smoke that life in Black Town was compared by one visitor to “confinement in a chimney-pot.”"