fireplace

[Eng. fire, and place.] Arch .: That part of a room in which the fire is built. The floor, or bottom of the fireplace is called are the hearth, the broad, flat stone in front of the hear this the slab, the vertical sides of the fireplace opening called the jambs, and the lintel lying on them the mantel. The part of the wall immediately above the mantel is the breast, and the wall behind fireplace is IMG:content-1664.png:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][subsumed] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia the back. The tube or pa age for the smoke is the flue; the narrow part where the flue opens into the fireplace is the throat. A damper is sometimes fixed at the throat to regulate the draught.