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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