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Recent Examples of umiak
Instead, guardsmen showed up in umiaks with small outboard motors.
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Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death.
—John Oseid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death.
—John Oseid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for umiak
Noun
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Visitors can stay the night in lakeside cabins or pitch a tent in the campground or a canoe campsite, which is only accessible by water.—
Kristy Christiansen,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2025
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Travelers interested in Polynesian culture may want to test the resort’s traditional outrigger canoe on a trip to one of the surrounding private islets that share an atoll with the Brando.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Another could see guests hiking to a glacial lake or going for a skiff tour among icebergs.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
18 Feb. 2025
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Founder Christopher Columbus Smith built his first wooden boat, a skiff, in 1874, as a 13-year-old growing up on the St. Clair River in Algonac, Michigan.—
Jaclyn Trop,
Robb Report,
24 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In summer, the Lake Logan Marina rents kayaks, paddleboards, and pedalboats (from $14 an hour) and local outfitter Touch Earth Adventures runs evening kayak excursions in search of the lake’s elusive giant beaver ($100 for three hours).—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
24 Feb. 2025
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And once the building is back in shape, the 100 kayaks stuffed into Tunro’s bedrooms at home must be brought back.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2025
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The two end their day with a romantic ride in a rowboat, which Grant has no clue how to operate.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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After that, the cast headed out on their first mission, which required them to paddle a rowboat around the loch and capture a maximum of $40,000 while leaving two contestants at each of the five pontoons along the way, which also left them vulnerable to be the first one murdered.—
Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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Domingo Trujillo, captain of the agency's rescue vessel, told broadcaster TVE that rescuers had been aware that a pregnant woman was on the dinghy.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC News,
9 Jan. 2025
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In 1972, Scottish sailor Dougal Robertson and his family survived for 38 days at sea in a small dinghy after killer whales sunk their schooner near the Galapagos Islands.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
29 Jan. 2025
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It was purchased in 1890 by brothers John and Alexander Laurie to tow vessels and barges, or scows filled with stone from nearby quarries, in Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay.—
Caitlin Looby,
Journal Sentinel,
21 Sep. 2024
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The foundation could be a raft made of tree logs; pontoon made of fiberglass, steel or aluminum; plywood barge or scow floats made from salvaged wooden and metal hulls; or box floats made of wood, metal or Styrofoam.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
28 Oct. 2022
Noun
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Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.—
Sira Thierij,
NPR,
26 Dec. 2024
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As the team began to pull up its fishing nets, the pirogue pitched sharply.—
Jack Thompson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
4 June 2024
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Travelers interested in Polynesian culture may want to test the resort’s traditional outrigger canoe on a trip to one of the surrounding private islets that share an atoll with the Brando.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
25 Feb. 2025
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These outriggers exist to allow astronomers to pinpoint the source of the FRBs CHIME detects.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Umiak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/umiak. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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