umiak

Examples of umiak in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Instead, guardsmen showed up in umiaks with small outboard motors. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023 The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death. John Oseid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022

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“Umiak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/umiak. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.

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