Definition of Stovepipe iron

1. Noun. Plate iron that is thinner than tank iron.

Generic synonyms: Plate Iron

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stovepipe Iron

stoutness
stoutnesses
stouts
stovaine
stovaines
stove
stove bolt
stove poker
stoved
stovehouse
stovehouses
stoveless
stovelike
stovepipe
stovepipe hat
stovepipe iron (current term)
stovepiped
stovepipes
stovepiping
stover
stovers
stoves
stoveside
stovetop
stovetops
stovies
stoving
stovings
stow
stow away

Literary usage of Stovepipe iron

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1917)
"... clase rating on straight or mixed carloads of stovepipe, stovepipe iron, elbows, and coal hods, or same mixed with ..."

2. Annual Report by Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners, Iowa State Commerce Commission (1902)
"iH 2 Packed in boxes ..................................... ........ ij Stovepipe Iron, cut in shape for stovepipe, and Stovepipe, side seams nol f . ..."

3. Experimental Wireless Stations: Their Theory, Design, Construction and by Philip E. Edelman (1922)
"Transformer iron may be had from supply houses cut to size, or a good grade of stovepipe iron may be used. The legs should be wound with a few layers of ..."

4. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1919)
"Around the break, two thicknesses of stovepipe iron were wrapped, before the clamps were put on, to stop leakage.—Donald A. Hamp- son, Middletown, ..."

5. Small Motors, Transformers, Electromagnets: A Practical Presentation of by Hugh Montgomery Stoller, Frank Eugene Austin, Edwin Wilbur Seeger, American Technical Society (1920)
"The iron strips may be obtained cut to the proper size or they may be cut by hand from ordinary stovepipe iron, the so-called Russia iron. ..."

6. Proceedings by Nebraska, Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, State Board of Agriculture (1903)
"This is made of stovepipe iron by turning up the sides and ends about four inches so FIG. 13.—Kerosene pan or "Hopper Dozer," for capturing and destroying ..."

7. How to Make Low-pressure Transformers by Frank Eugene Austin (1916)
"A special type of core may be constructed from the ordinary stovepipe iron obtainable at any hardware store, as follows: First construct a form on which to ..."

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