stovepipe
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stovepipe
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From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
noun stovepipes · stove-pipe
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
verb stovepipes · stovepiping · stovepiped · stove-pipe
- 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.
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noun sheet-metal chimney
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Talk about this word "stovepipe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/stovepipe. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. stovepipe. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/stovepipe "stovepipe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/stovepipe.Cite this
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title = {stovepipe},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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