Stovepipe

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.

    "On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe."

  2. 2
    a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur wordnet
  3. 3
    A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
  4. 4
    chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue wordnet
  5. 5
    A stovepipe hat.

    "I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand."

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  1. 6
    A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
  2. 7
    A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar. slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it. idiomatic, transitive
  2. 2
    Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.

Etymology 2

From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.

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