Usually means: Climbing technique using opposing forces.
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  1. chimneying: Wiktionary
  2. chimneying: Dictionary.com
  3. Chimneying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chimney)

noun:  A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
noun:  The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
noun:  (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
noun:  A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
noun:  (vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
noun:  (Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.
verb:  (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
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