Sentence:  Beyond that misty gray of the rain , he saw the stretching hutment , low diminutive log cabins , chinked with mud , with doorways a man would have to crouch to get through , with roofs of tenting laid over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes , or fence rails , with cranky <WSD>chimneys</WSD> of sticks and dried mud . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building