Crossword clues for umiak
umiak
- Boat used in Alaska
- Open Eskimo boat
- Kayak's cold-weather kin
- Yupik transport
- Yupik craft
- Skin-covered Eskimo boat
- Skin-covered boat
- Inuit's wooden boat
- Inuit vessel
- Inuit for "women's boat"
- Hide-covered boat
- Eskimo transportation
- Craft for Eskimos
- Cold-water craft
- Boat sometimes built around a whalebone frame
- Arctic canoe
- Alaskan vessel
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
large Eskimo boat, c.1743, from Eskimo umiaq "an open skin boat." Said by 18c.-19c. sources to be a "woman's boat," as opposed to the kayak, which was worked exclusively by men.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Inuit for transportation.
Wikipedia
The umiak, umialak, umiaq, umiac, oomiac, oomiak, ongiuk, or anyak is a type of open skin boat used by both Yupik and Inuit, and was originally found in all coastal areas from Siberia to Greenland. First arising in Thule times, it has traditionally been used in summer to move people and possessions to seasonal hunting grounds and for hunting whales and walrus. Although the umiak was usually propelled by oars (women) or paddles (men), sails--sometimes made from seal intestines--were also used, and in the 20th century, outboard motors.
Usage examples of "umiak".
Tirkiluk, yet she committed some crime, and her parents rowed out with her into the ocean in their umiak, and threw her overboard.
All those stately kayaks, umiaks, York boats and peterheads were displaced by functional 14- or 24foot square-stern aluminum canoes, weighted down with 25- or 45-h.
Wood can be used for sleds, and tent frames and the frames of kayaks and umiaks, the large, broad vessels which can hold several individuals, sometimes used in whaling.
Many times the umiaks, or the light, one-man vessels, the kayaks, do not return.