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Stovepipe
noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur wordnet
- 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 chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue wordnet
- 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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- 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.
- 7 A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar. slang
Verb
- 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 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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