stovepipe

IPA: stˈoʊvpaɪp

noun

  • Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
  • A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
  • (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
  • (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.

verb

  • (idiomatic) To collect or store information in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or ability to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
  • (firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
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Examples of "stovepipe" in Sentences

  • Many thanks for that clever stovepipe hat barnstar.
  • Someone passing above a wide stovepipe may fall in.
  • Jones used his stovepipe hat to deliver the mail from.
  • It was difficult to cause failure of the simple stovepipe engine.

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