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Word entry · 9 letters

stovepipe

Best crossword clue

"Tall hat style"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted eeioppstvStarts with SEnds with E1 clues
1S2T3O4V5E6P7I8P9E

Definitions

  1. a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
  • Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.
  • I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.

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