stovepipe.
Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
Meaning & usage
Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
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.
A stovepipe hat.
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.
A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
Where this word comes from
From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
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.
Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
To improperly share classified information or share such information without sufficient context.
Where this word comes from
From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
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