Definitions for umiaks

umiaks u·mi·ak

Spelling: [oo-mee-ak]
IPA: /ˈu miˌæk/

Umiaks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in umiaks (aikmsu).

Definitions for umiaks

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of umiaks

First recorded in 1760-70, umiak is from the Inuit word umiaq women's boat

Examples for umiaks

The name kayak is properly only applied to the boat used by an Eskimo man—that used by a woman is called an umiak.

And the umiak and its crew of women stayed there, and wintered in that place.

And at the same moment the sea was lashed into foam, but the umiak had reached the land.

An Eskimo even thinks it an indignity to row in an umiak, the large boat used by women.

The umiak dashed off, but it seemed as if it were standing still, so swiftly did the whale overhaul it.

One of them is the great woman's boat called the umiak, from twelve to eighteen yards in length, and four or five in width.

When Kovik appeared in his umiak with his squat wife and family, there was a general handshaking.

The skins and poles can be transported when the umiak is able to carry them.

The covering of the umiak is made of skins of the largest seals.

I have found a dead whale; to-morrow we must all go out in the umiak and cut it up.

Word Value for umiaks
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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