ulu

[ oo-loo ]

/ ˈu lu /

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 Eskimo women.

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From Inuit

Early this morning, while still lying in bed, I heard the women at the bathing-place sending forth joyous peals of Ulu!
Glimpses of Bengal|Sir Rabindranath Tagore
"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.
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 England
She gathered the soft lipoa moss and went up to the waterfall, to Ulu (Kaholo's home).
Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)|W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

The next day was to be our last on the plains, for our destination was Ulu Kishla, well up on the hills.
By Desert Ways to Baghdad|Louisa Jebb