umiak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of umiak
First recorded in 1760–70, umiak is from the Inuit word umiaq “women's boat”
Example Sentences
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His chronicle of a voyage in an umiak, an open skin-covered Eskimo craft, from Nome to a fragment of rock called King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both bodies were wrapped in blankets, placed in a native umiak to be towed to Point Barrow.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of them is the great woman's boat called the umiak, from twelve to eighteen yards in length, and four or five in width.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus
That umiak has been hauled out of the ice!”
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
His canoe was out of reach on the cache with the Husky's kayak, and the clumsy skin umiak of the family was useless for quick work.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.
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