stovepipe en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
Meanings
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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, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 146: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.
1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
- 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.
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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 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
- 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.
- (slang) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stove-pipe | alternative | lexicographic | |
| stovepipes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
stovepipe tornado · stovepipe hat · stovepipe trousers
Translations (12)
de Ofenrohr (sheet-metal chimney) · nb skorstensrør (sheet-metal chimney) · nv biiʼłidí (sheet-metal chimney) · sv plåtskorsten (sheet-metal chimney) · sv silo (channel for compartmentalized information) · nl kachelpijp (sheet-metal chimney) · nb ovnsrør (sheet-metal chimney) · sv kaminrör (sheet-metal chimney) · oj okijaabik (sheet-metal chimney) · bg кюнец (sheet-metal chimney) · sv skorstenspipa (sheet-metal chimney) · sv stuprör (channel for compartmentalized information)