stovepipe

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.
2. 2

   A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties…

   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.

3. 3

   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.
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      A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing…

      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.

   2. 5

      A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.

   3. 6

      To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who…

      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.

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      Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading…

      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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