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stovepipe

2 synonyms for stovepipe, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.

Noun — A metal pipe that carries smoke away from a stove or furnace.

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Still standard English, but they carry more weight.

Rare, literary or technical

Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.

Etymology

Formed from stove and pipe. In firearms, the sense arose because a trapped cartridge case looks like a stovepipe in the stove sense.

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