A dialectal or archaic term, possibly referring to a chimney or a variant spelling, though usage is extremely limited.
This word is obscure and its etymology is uncertain. It may be a dialectal variation or misspelling of 'chimney,' or it may be a completely separate word from limited regional English variants.
If 'cheeney' is a real word at all, it's so obscure that it's practically a ghost word—it represents the thousands of dialectal and regional words that exist in pockets of English-speaking communities but never make it into standard dictionaries!
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