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
And then next morning very early, he set out and rowed northward in his umiak.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
And when he had straightened out all their arms, he went out of that house the strongest of all, and went out to his umiak and rowed away southwards with his wife.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
Thus in a few days they had their umiak filled with meat, and could go home again.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
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