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Yukon|ˈjuːkɒn|
[The name of the Yukon Territory in north-west Canada.]
Yukon stove, a lightweight portable stove consisting of a small metal box divided into firebox and oven.
1898W. B. Haskell Two Years in Klondyke 75 The ‘Yukon stove’..is a small sheet iron box with an oven at the back and a telescope pipe. 1943W. H. Chase Sourdough Pot xvi. 97 The stove, a sheet-iron affair, known as a Yukon stove, had a limited capacity. 1974W. Hunt North of 53 iv. 15 A wood-fired ‘Yukon’ stove, either square or round bottomed, and containing a small oven at the back end, provided cooking facilities and kept the cabin warm in the winter.
Also ˈYukoner, an inhabitant of the Yukon Territory; ˈYukonesque a.
c1898Yukoner [see Hoochinoo 2]. 1924M. H. Mason Arctic Forests 84 These things have made the Yukoners the finest, most generous, and most virile population to be found on the whole continent of America. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 128 Our Yukonesque stampedes into any business that seems, at any given moment, to be doing well. 1977Yukoner [see outsider 1]. |