ulu
a knife with a broad, nearly semicircular blade joined to a short haft at a right angle to the unsharpened side: a traditional tool of Inuit or Yupik women.
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How to use ulu in a sentence
Such fire-balls, shot into the sun-dried canvas of the clipper, might go far towards leaving her bones ableach on ulu Salama.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandCareful inspection through the glass confirmed the opinion that a formidable war-fleet was headed toward ulu Salama bar.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandA rival company then repeated the pi-ulu, with some additions; the gourds were again filled and emptied.
Summer Cruising in the South Seas | Charles Warren StoddardFrom this horrible draught, swallowed in the ecstasy of triumph, Kau-ulu-fonua earned his surname of Fekai (the Cannibal).
Savage Island | Basil C. Thomson"ulu Chan" means "great lord," "ulu" being equal to the Latin magnus, and "chan" to dominus or imperator.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
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