different between chimney vs stovepipe

English

Alternative forms

• chimley, chimbley (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English chymeney, chymney, chymne, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camin?ta, from Latin caminus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kám?nos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t??mni/, (proscribed) /?t??m?ni/

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys)

1. A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydrocarbon based fuels); a flue.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
3. (Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
5. (vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)

1. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

See also

• cowl
• fireplace
• flaunching
• flue
• smokestack
• stove

English

Etymology

stove +? pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.

Noun

stovepipe (plural stovepipes)

1. Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
2. A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
3. (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
4. (firearms) A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.

Derived terms

• stovepipe hat
• stovepipe tornado

Translations

Verb

stovepipe (third-person singular simple present stovepipes, present participle stovepiping, simple past and past participle stovepiped)

1. To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
2. (firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.