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Stovepipe

noun

Chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue.

A man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur. Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, top hat, topper.

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"Stovepipe" Quotes from Famous Books

... "No'm, I didn't listen neither. I des natcherally hearn, 'count of that hole fer the stovepipe what comes through the floor of ...

— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine

... long, dry, and dusty hours. He nickered. "In a minute," said Corliss. Then he knocked at the ranch-house door. Riders of the Concho usually strode jingling into the ranch-house without formality. Corliss, however, had been gazing at the lean stovepipe for hours before he finally decided that there was smoke rising from it. He ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... Europe that is supported be ye'er pah an' mah,' he says. ''Twud be a tur-r'ble thing,' he says, 'if some day they shud meet a Spanish gin'ral in Mahdrid, an' have him say to thim, "I seen ye'er son Willie durin' th' war wearin' a stovepipe hat an' tan shoes." Let us begin th' examination,' he says. 'Ar-re ye a good goluf player?' 'I am,' says Willie. 'Thin I appint ye a liftnant. What we need in th' ar-rmy is good goluf players,' he says. 'In our former war,' he says, 'we had th' misfortune to have men ...

— Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War • Finley Peter Dunne

... also, something of the evening and night of that first day; the tea and fresh milk and bread and butter; and how, when settling ourselves to sleep for the night, we saw a large white rat crossing the stovepipe which ran through our bedroom from the great Canadian stove in the sitting-room. It is curious how trifling things cleave to the memory, while the monotonous things of everyday life, which are our ...

— Some Reminiscences of old Victoria • Edgar Fawcett

... brought the little band of adventurers to the home of Jack Pumpkinhead, which was a house formed from the shell of an immense pumpkin. Jack had made it himself and was very proud of it. There was a door, and several windows, and through the top was stuck a stovepipe that led from a small stove inside. The door was reached by a flight of three steps and there was a good floor on which was arranged some ...

— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum

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