ulu

[ oo-loo ]

/ ˈu lu /

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noun

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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Origin of ulu

From Inuit

How to use ulu in a sentence

Siphunc′ulus; Sipunc′ulus, a genus of worms belonging to the class Gephyrea.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various
Bib'ulus, a colleague of Julius Cæsar, but a mere cipher in office; hence his name became a household word for a nonentity.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
I rose on an elbow, but could hear no new sound except the soft rustle of Ulus's wet clothes.
The Recipe for Diamonds|Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
So we did that—dropped down with the ebb, stepped over the rail, bidding Ulus go his ways with boat and news and trophies.
The Recipe for Diamonds|Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Ulus had slipped a thong round Se's throat, and that wily hound was mute.
The Recipe for Diamonds|Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne