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stovepipe

noun 5
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

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Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
- Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys. — 1994
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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. — 2021
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.
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.
(slang) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.

verb3

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.
Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
To improperly share classified information or share such information without sufficient context.

forms

stovepiped · stovepiping · stovepipes

Phrases with stovepipe

stovepipe hat
A type of top hat worn mainly in the 19th century, made of silk or other materials and having a very tall, cylindrical, flat-topped crown.

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