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Yukon chimney Esp. Northwest

• a safety chimney consisting of two concentric sheet-metal cylinders joined at top and bottom by perforated collars which allow an exchange of air, thus preventing over-heating of the stovepipe, which passes upward within the inner cylinder.

  See also: Klondike (-type) chimney  Yukon pipe  

  • 1900  The smoke curled up pathetically from the Yukon stovepipe.
  • 1962  Centrally, one sees a typical small log cabin, chinked with mud, a Yukon chimney poked through the roof, a whiff of wood smoke trailing from it.