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
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 Benjamin La Trobe
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 W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
He sought for him everywhere, but being unable to find him, he built a big umiak, and when it was built, he covered it with three layers of skins.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
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