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umiak|ˈuːmɪæk|
Also umiack, umyak, oomia(c)k.
[Eskimo.]
A large Eskimo boat, consisting of a wooden frame with skins drawn over it, and propelled by paddles.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) L b, The canoe is called kaiak, or man's boat, to distinguish it from umiak, the woman's boat. 1819Sir J. Ross Voy. Disc. I. iv. 55 The boat was called an umiack. 1845Life T. Simpson xiii. 258, I procured an oomiak or family canoe. 1863A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 431 In Greenland, the umyak is the boat worked exclusively by the women, as the kayak is by the men. 1884Good Words Feb. 96/1 We quitted the whale-boat..and took a small umiak, on account of weight. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIII. 390/1 Huge, lumbering oomiacks, loaded to the rail with a mixed cargo of men, women, children, and dogs, all howling, is an entertaining..sight. 1900Scribner's Mag. Sept. 294/2 Well-made models of kayaks and umiaks. |