A chimney sweep is a worker who cleans soot out of flues. Book the chimney sweep.
Children were sent up chimneys until laws in the nineteenth century finally stopped it. A chimney sweep at a wedding is thought lucky, which is a strange survival of a hard trade.
1nounchimney sweepA worker who cleans soot out of flues.
“The chimney sweep found a jackdaw's nest four feet deep.”
chimney sweep is a worker.
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