Definitions from Wiktionary (stovepipe)

▸ noun:  Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
▸ noun:  (firearms) 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.
▸ noun:  (military slang, World War I– World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) 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.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, firearms) 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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