stove·pipe

[stohv-pahyp]
noun
1.
a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.

Origin:
1690–1700; stove1 + pipe1

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source Link To stovepipe
Collins
World English Dictionary
stovepipe (ˈstəʊvˌpaɪp) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a pipe that serves as a flue to a stove
2.  Also called: stovepipe hat a man's tall silk hat

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
00:10
Stovepipe is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
If you look high on the wall to the right of the bedroom door, you can see
  where the stovepipe was connected.
Maintain a screen constructed of non-flammable material over the flue opening
  of every chimney or stovepipe.
Pa put a stovepipe up through the ceiling into the attic and out through a hole
  in the roof.
Use no more than two right-angle bends in the stovepipe installation.
Related Words
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT