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u⋅mi⋅ak

  [oo-mee-ak]
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–noun
an open Eskimo boat that consists of a wooden frame covered with skins and provided with several thwarts: used for transport of goods and passengers.
Also called oomiak.

Origin:
1760–70; < Inuit umiaq women's boat
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u·mi·ak also oo·mi·ak   (ōō'mē-āk')   
n.  A large open Inuit or Eskimo boat made of skins stretched on a wooden frame, usually propelled by paddles.

[Inuit umiaq.]
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umiak

boat used by the Greenland and later by the Alaskan Eskimos for transport. It was called the woman's boat, as opposed to the kayak, the men's hunting and fishing boat.

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