stovepipe in English

noun
1
the pipe taking the smoke and gases from a stove up through a roof or to a chimney.
Remove vines in contact with the home, prune tree branches and shrubs within 15 feet of a stovepipe or chimney outlet, and ask the power company to clear branches from power lines.
2
an information conduit that traverses vertical levels efficiently but does not disperse widely.
The postwar planning by the State and Defense departments, along with that of other agencies, was done in what bureaucrats call ‘vertical stovepipes .’
verb
1
transmit (information) directly through levels of a hierarchy.
neocons who stovepiped lies straight up to the White House
noun

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1. Again, the stovepipe model does not seem to be adapted to these developments.

2. The Belgic Shako Part 2 of the History of the British Infantry Shako By 1812, the stovepipe shako had become the ugly stepchild

3. A design calculation resulted in the burner stovepipe being too long, causing the flame to be too high in the balloon creating excessive pressure which caused the balloon to split.

4. Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social dancing enjoyed by the Gwich'in Athapaskan Indians and other tribal groups in northeast Alaska, the Yukon, and the northwest territories.