ulu

[ oo-loo ]

noun

a knife with a broad, nearly semicircular blade joined to a short haft at a right angle to the unsharpened side: a traditional tool of Inuit or Yupik women.

Origin of ulu

From Inuit

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Siphunc′ulus; Sipunc′ulus, a genus of worms belonging to the class Gephyrea.
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Bib'ulus, a colleague of Julius Cæsar, but a mere cipher in office; hence his name became a household word for a nonentity.
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I rose on an elbow, but could hear no new sound except the soft rustle of Ulus's wet clothes.
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So we did that—dropped down with the ebb, stepped over the rail, bidding Ulus go his ways with boat and news and trophies.
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Ulus had slipped a thong round Se's throat, and that wily hound was mute.
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