Definition of "chimney-sweep" []

• One whose occupation is the sweeping of chimneys, in order to rid them of the soot that adheres to their sides. (noun)
• An apparatus for cleaning chimneys. (noun)
• The smut of wheat, Ustilago carbo. (noun)
• In angling, an artificial fly used in salmon-fishing: named from its black color. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Owing to my excellent timing, I got to be chimney-sweep."
• "The casting of Julie Andrews as supernatural/whimsical nanny Mary Poppins was brilliant Andrews played her charming and so smart, and the world fell in love, as was the casting of the so-likeable Dick Van Dyke as chimney-sweep/philosopher-artist Bert."
• "If in speaking of my points I think of some system of things, e.g. the system: love, law, chimney-sweep ¦ and then assume all my axioms as relations between these things, then my propositions, e.g. Pythagoras 'theorem, are also valid for these things."