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
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)
The chief departed from the Pole Star's side after bundling aboard his umiak all of his trade stuff and relatives.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
The larger umiak, or women's boat, is now scarcely met with in Labrador.
From With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador by La Trobe, Benjamin
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