stovepipe

plural stovepipes · alternative stove-pipe

1. 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

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   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

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. businessA 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

4. engineeringA 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. slanggovernmentA trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.

present singular third person stovepipes · participle present stovepiping · participle past stovepiped · past stovepiped · alternative stove-pipe

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