Stovepipe

Quick meaning: Stovepipe is a noun meaning Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
2. (military slang, World War I– World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
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. (transitive, idiomatic) 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.
5. (intransitive, firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
6. (firearms) 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.

Example Sentences

Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• stovepipes
• stove-pipe
• stovepiping
• stovepiped

Synonyms for stovepipe

Depending on context, synonyms include beaver, topper, high hat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include topper, beaver, high hat, hat, tallboy, pipe.

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