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stovepipe::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | chimney |
Examples of stovepipe
stovepipe
A man dressed like Abraham Lincoln, complete with stovepipe hat, posed for photos.
From the kentucky.com
Children cannot make creative connections in a stovepipe system of education.
From the forbes.com
The wind literally blew the stovepipe off the wall and rain poured through a window.
From the chron.com
Colby says the way supermarkets core and stovepipe pineapples is wasteful by comparison.
From the news-journalonline.com
Several bearded men dressed as Lincoln, in black coat and stovepipe hat.
From the washingtonpost.com
Hamilton will depict Lincoln at around 40 years old, without the beard and stovepipe hat.
From the courier-journal.com
A highlight of the field trip was wearing stovepipe hats like the one Lincoln often wore.
From the washingtonpost.com
Michael was as tall as Abe Lincoln, with a large straw stovepipe hat.
From the theepochtimes.com
Is that Joe in the stovepipe hat, with the hair down the back and the beard down the front?
From the time.com
- Chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue
- Dress hat: a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
- (stovepiping) retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers
- A stovepipe organisation is one where the structure of the organisation largely or entirely restricts the flow of information within the organisation to up-down through lines of control but inhibits or prevents cross organisational communication. ...
- (Stove-piping) Each operating department or agency manages its own technology and data with little or no statewide involvement.
- Nickname for U-180, U-180A, and U-180B.
- A metaphor for the mode of direct control exercised upon small or specialized units (eg: CID, CIC, SF/SOF) by high command that bypasses intermediate or theater organizations without their influence or intervention; also called "pipeline" or "mainline". ...
- Especially in a semi-automatic pistol, the tendency of a cartridge to fail to chamber properly because it has approached the loading ramp at the wrong angle and to become pinioned by the rear edge of the ejection port, causing a jam. ...
- Refers to the top of the boot when there is no scallop. The boot resembles a sawed-off pipe. Most early cowboys, before 1900, wore boots with stovepipe tops because they were still clinging somewhat to military fashion.
