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umiaks

umiaks is the plural of umiak.

Meaning of umiak

Noun

umiak (plural umiaks or umiat)

  1. A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation.
    • In many regions, people went inland at the end of August (often travelling upriver in large sealskin boats called umiat) to hunt caribou till September or October.2002, Louis-Jacques Dorais, 'Inuit', Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, ed. Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto, page 135

Questions about umiaks

What is umiaks the plural of?
Umiaks is the plural of umiak.

Words near umiaks in the dictionary

  1. umiac
  2. umiack
  3. umiacks
  4. umiacs
  5. umiak
  6. umiaks
  7. umiaq
  8. umiaqs
  9. umiat
  10. UMich
  11. UMID

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