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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Both bodies were wrapped in blankets, placed in a native umiak to be towed to Point Barrow.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A large umiak appeared from the ice of the strait, and in its bow stood a chief, who called Stirling's name.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
"Me take umiak and trade stuff and wife and little ones and me go."
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
An umiak started out on a journey, and the people in it were hurried and forgetful.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
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