chimneysweeper
- n someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- Apprenticed to a master chimneysweeper ; at the age of twelve years, Lawrence climbed flues for seven years before he turned from the unappealing work to butchering and then .
- Gamfield, the chimneysweeper in Oliver Twist, who labored under "the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death," explained the attitude of masters to boys .