How to pronounce “stovepipe”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
• (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.
• (military slang, World War I– World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.[1]
• [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.
• (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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