stovepipe
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
- 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.
(clothing) A stovepipe hat.
- 4.
(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.
- 5.
(slang)(military slang, World War I– World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(idiomatic, transitive)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.
- 2.
(intransitive)(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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From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.