stovepipe

Meaning

Noun

1. Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
2. 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. A stovepipe hat.
4. 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.
5. (slang) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.

Verb

1. (idiomatic, transitive) 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.
2. (intransitive) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.

Synonyms

chimney

silk hat

smokestack

dress hat

opera hat

high hat

top hat

topper

beaver

🦫

flue

funnel

smoke pipe

stack

stovepipe hat

shaft

mortar

chimney stack

fireplace

lamp chimney

mine thrower

elbow

smokestock

heating tube

Translations

Ofenrohr

barret de copa

barret de mitja copa

clac

trona

tub d'estufa

-e

Schornstein -s

ημίψηλο

μπουρί

bièvre

🦫

castor

🦫

cheminée

claque

haut-de-forme

Etymology

From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.