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单词 stovepipe
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stovepipen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstove-pipe.
1. Each of the pipes by which hot air is conveyed in a ‘stove’ or hothouse.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > duct or pipe conveying heat
sidewaya1387
caliduct1624
floor-pipe1691
stovepipe1691
trill1707
flue1715
hot-water pipe1744
riser1876
flow-pipe1904
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 162 [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.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > flue or shaft
tewelc1384
shaftc1450
tunnel1508
shankc1525
chimney-shank1552
flue1582
gullet1672
funnel1688
fire tube1729
vent1756
stalk1821
chimney neck1833
stovepipe1858
1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 273 If a stove pipe be observed ascending through a room, it will be easy to show that [etc.].
1861 C. Benson in Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 276 He..finally clutched at the stove-pipe to save himself [falling].
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 60 It was the sealer Northern Light..With a stovepipe stuck from a starboard port.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 61 A stovepipe seen through the closing mist, it shows like a four-inch gun.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner i. 3 A shop..where ancient pieces of stove-pipe and a few fire-irons are exposed for sale.
attributive.1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 627 The pipes are..jointed together in stove-pipe fashion.
3. colloquial or slang.
a. (Originally U.S.) A tall hat of cylindrical shape, a ‘top hat’, ‘chimney-pot’. Also stovepipe hat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > tall > cylindrical > top hat
stovepipe1851
bell-topper1858
top hat1881
tile-hat1937
1851 Illustr. London News 27 Sept. 395/2 Every male who wears the present stove-pipe section head-gear.
1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. xxii. 333 Here and there some forlorn individual exhibited himself in a black coat and stove-pipe hat.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius x His servant arrayed him in the purple and stove-pipe of the higher civilization.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 429 The brimless black velvet ‘stove-pipe’ hats worn by the girls on Sundays.
1902 J. F. Rusling European Days & Ways 319 Derby and slouch hats, and sack coats, instead of ‘stove~pipes’ and Prince Alberts.
b. plural. Trousers. More recently, spec. = drainpipe n. 2b. Also attributive, as stovepipe trousers.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers
trouse1678
trousers1681
kicks1699
trousiesa1713
brogues1748
inexpressibles1790
unmentionable1791
et cetera1794
indescribable1794
kickseys1819
ineffables1823
indispensablesa1828
unimaginable1833
pantaloon1834
pants1835
inexplicables1836
never-mention-'ems1836
unwhisperable1837
results1839
sit-down-upons1839
sit-upons1839
unmentionabilities1840
innominablea1843
unutterables1843
trews1847
round-the-houses1857
unprintable1860
stovepipe1863
sit-in-ems1873
reach-me-downs1877
strides1889
rounds1893
long1898
kecks1900
rammies1906
trou1911
pants1970
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > close-fitting
overall1776
pantaloon1798
tights1827
jeans1843
stovepipe1863
strides1889
drainpipe1950
Capri pants1956
toreador pants1956
yoga pants1973
leggings1977
1863 B. Brierley Chrons. Waverlow 147 Their calves were..hidden betwixt the seams of the more modern ‘stove pipes’ (trousers).
1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences vii. 176 Narrow stove-pipe trousers.
1970 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 5/2 The greasers..wear stove pipes, grey with pin stripes.
1978 Sunday 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. Military.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > portable mortars and rocket-launchers
rocket gun1827
widowmaker1855
stovepipe1920
bazooka1943
Stalin organ1955
1920 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’.
1957 R. Leckie Helmet for my Pillow vi. 236 I remained..spared the ordeal of carrying mortar shells to the ‘stove~pipe’ crews.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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