• @Jimmyeatsausage
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    1 year ago

    If the house is old enough, it might be an old coal shoot chute for a boiler in the basement. Lived in an old farmhouse for a bit that had one of these

    • @timt
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      181 year ago

      *coal chute

      • SonnyVabitch
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        61 year ago

        From French chute, fall, see also parachute, “protect against falling”.

      • @Jimmyeatsausage
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        51 year ago

        Thank you… I knew it wasn’t “shoot” but no other spelling looked right