Definitions for bidarka

bidarka bi·dar·ka

Spelling: [bahy-dahr-kuh]
IPA: /baɪˈdɑr kə/

Bidarka is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in bidarka (aabdikr).

Definitions for bidarka

noun

  1. a sealskin boat used by Aleuts and southern Alaskan Eskimos.

Origin of bidarka

1825-35; Russian baĭdárka, equivalent to baĭdár(a) kind of river craft (apparently akin to baĭdák river craft, barge, Old Russian baidakŭ, bodakŭ, of obscure origin) + -ka diminutive suffix

Examples for bidarka

As she pulled the bidarka up on the other shore she instructed the children to remain in the boat till she returned.

They sit in small hatch with apron all around their bodies, and the bidarka goes over the roughest sea and floats like a bladder.

As the grain of sand is to the bidarka, as the bidarka is to the schooner, so the schooner is to the steamer.

There is every chance that he left the bidarka somewhere in the creek.

The third, called a kayak, differs from the bidarka only in being longer and having two or three holes.

There be room in his bidarka for two, and he would that thou camest with him.

But suppose the bidarka is gone—he very probably took that with him.

They hurried the bidarka across the sea-wall to the open water of the bay.

Across the hollow tendrils the old chief guided the bidarka silently, in a zigzag course.

Two of the men hoisted the bidarka on their shoulders and carried it up to the fire.

Word Value for bidarka
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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