stovepipe
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Is stovepipe a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (clothing) A stovepipe hat.Examples: "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."
2. (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.
3. (military slang, World War I– World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.slang
verb (English)
1. (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.idiomatictransitive
2. (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.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary