1864 C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. 291 One of the Innuit women slit them down with her oodloo till they did fit.

1940 Beaver Mar. 24 The women then take their semicircular knives or ‘ooloos’, and flench the hide from the blubber.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. ii. 77 They [sc. knives] are especially common in the North-western Eskimo area, where they occur as the ‘woman's knife’ or ulu, mounted in wood or ivory handles.

1964 National Geographic May 718/2 Some Eskimo women want their favourite ulu to be buried with them.

1972 S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic (1973) ii. 35 Tabitha..hacked off some bannock with her round, razor-sharp ooloo.

1878 F. McNair Perak & Malays xxxv. 424 Futreu surveys will confirm this description of the Ulu—interior, or up-stream.

1936 R. H. B. Lockhart Return to Malaya ii. iii. 108 In my time every healthy young man preferred the ‘ulu’ to the town, not merely because he found the life more attractive in itself, but also because it offered greater chances for promotion.

1963 J. Kirkup Tropic Temper 106 In the ulu or deep jungle country, no Chinese would ever dare to look at a Malay girl.

1977 Borneo Bull. 7 May 4/3 The ulu people may now be less willing to flock into a town which can cope only primitively with big numbers of visitors.