"Both" for "either" or "or" for "and"?

[Wilson Gray]

>From an e-mail to me:

" 'Caminetto' ... : a word that can mean _both_ a fireplace _or_ a chimney
in Italian"

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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