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==English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|stove-pipe}}

===Etymology===
From {{compound|en|stove|pipe}}.  The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-stovepipe.wav|a=US}}

===Noun===
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# [[sheet-metal|Sheet-metal]] [[tubing]] used as a [[chimney]] for a stove or [[furnace]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1939|month=July|title=Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways|journal=Railway Magazine|page=49|text=On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a '''stovepipe'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1994|author=w:Stewart Brand|title={{w|How Buildings Learn|How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built}}|location=New York|publisher={{w|Viking Press|Viking}}|isbn=0670835153|page=146|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/howbuildingslear00bran_0/page/146/mode/1up|text=Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and '''stovepipe''' replaced adobe chimneys.}}
# A [[channel]] for [[information]] which is [[compartmentalized]] in such a manner that some [[party|parties]] who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are [[restrict]]ed from [[access]]ing it.
# {{lb|en|clothing|nocat=1}} A [[stovepipe hat]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2021 December 29|author=Stephen Roberts|title=Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)|journal=RAIL|issue=947|page=57|text=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.}}
# {{lb|en|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 [[vertical]]ly or nearly so.
# {{lb|en|military slang|WWI|_|–|_|WWII}} A [[trench mortar]] such as the {{w|Stokes mortar}}.<ref>{{R:en:Lighter:1972|page=108}}</ref>

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|stovepipe trousers}}
* {{l|en|stovepipe hat}}
* {{l|en|stovepipe tornado}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|sheet-metal chimney}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|кюнец|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Ofenrohr|n}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|skorstensrør|n}}, {{t+|nb|ovnsrør|n}}
* Ojibwe: {{t|oj|okijaabik}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|kaminrör|n}}, {{t|sv|plåtskorsten|c}}, {{t|sv|skorstenspipa|c}}
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{{trans-top|channel for compartmentalized information}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|stuprör|n}}, {{t+|sv|silo|c}}
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===Verb===
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# {{lb|en|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 [[restrict]]ed from [[access]]ing it.
# {{lb|en|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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