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ˈstove-pipe
1. Each of the pipes by which hot air is conveyed in a ‘stove’ or hothouse.
1699Evelyn Kal. Hort. (ed. 9) 165 [The plants] as they are placed nearer, or farther from the Noses of the Stove⁓pipes, enjoy the several Climats and Degrees of Warmth which shall be found most..agreeable to them.
2. A metal pipe attached to a stove to carry off the smoke.
1858Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Phil. 273 If a stove pipe be observed ascending through a room, it will be easy to show that [etc.]. 1861C. Benson in Macm. Mag. Feb. 276 He..finally clutched at the stove-pipe to save himself [falling]. 1896Kipling Seven Seas, Three Sealers 18 It was the sealer Northern Light..With a stovepipe stuck from a starboard port. Ibid. 26 A stovepipe seen through the closing mist, it shows like a four-inch gun. 1898‘Merriman’ Roden's Corner i. 3 A shop..where ancient pieces of stove-pipe and a few fire-irons are exposed for sale.
attrib.1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 627 The pipes are..jointed together in stove-pipe fashion.
3. colloq. or slang.
a. (Originally U.S.) A tall hat of cylindrical shape, a ‘top hat’, ‘chimney-pot’. Also stove-pipe hat.
1851Illustr. Lond. News 27 Sept. 395/2 Every male who wears the present stove-pipe section head-gear. 1857J. D. Borthwick Three Yrs. California xxii. 333 Here and there some forlorn individual exhibited himself in a black coat and stove-pipe hat. 1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius x, His servant arrayed him in the purple and stove-pipe of the higher civilization. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 429 The brimless black velvet ‘stove-pipe’ hats worn by the girls on Sundays. 1902J. F. Rusling European Days & Ways 319 Derby and slouch hats, and sack coats, instead of ‘stove⁓pipes’ and Prince Alberts.
b. pl. Trousers. More recently, spec. = drain-pipe (fig.) s.v. drain n. 5. Also attrib., as stove-pipe trousers.
1863B. Brierley Chron. Waverlow 147 Their calves were..hidden betwixt the seams of the more modern ‘stove pipes’ (trousers). 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences vii. 176 Narrow stove-pipe trousers. 1970Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 5/2 The greasers..wear stove pipes, grey with pin stripes. 1978Sunday Times Mag. 18 June 43/2 The names are Mazurca and Maier, cheap pink shirts against blond hair, stovepipe trousers above bare ankles and feet.
c. A portable trench mortar. U.S. Mil.
1920H. H. Bissell Hist. Sixty-Third U.S. Infantry 37 It didn't prevent their finding ranges, or getting the maximum of performance out of the old ‘Stove-pipes’. 1957R. Leckie Helmet for my Pillow vi. 236, I remained..spared the ordeal of carrying mortar shells to the ‘stove⁓pipe’ crews. |