Lexicographical Neighbors of Oomiack
Literary usage of Oomiack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada: A Journey of 3,200 Miles by Canoe and by James Williams Tyrrell (1897)
"I have known them to make six miles an hour in dead water, whereas four miles
would be good going for a canoe. The " oomiack," or woman's boat, ..."
2. Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada: A Journey of 3,200 Miles by Canoe and by James Williams Tyrrell (1897)
"The " oomiack," or woman's boat, is a ESKIMO oomiack. flat-bottomed affair of
large carrying •capacity. ..."
3. The voyage of the Constance by Mary Gillies (1860)
"This was no sooner explained to them than the dogs and sledge were put on board
an oomiack, or woman's boat, with the most amusing bustle, and ten more dogs ..."
4. The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon, of H. M. S. Hecla, During the by George Francis Lyon (1824)
"... who came off in four men's boats and one oomiack. They had little to sell,
but we derived much amusement from the more than usually grotesque crew of ..."
5. The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon, of H. M. S. Hecla, During the by George Francis Lyon (1824)
"... who came off in four men's boats and one oomiack. They had little to sell,
but we derived much amusement from the more than usually grotesque crew of ..."
6. Arctic Exploration by J. Douglas Hoare (1906)
"Here Simpson succeeded in borrowing an " oomiack," or large family canoe, which
proved of such material assistance that before long they were at their ..."
7. The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art, and Literature edited by J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish (1894)
"The opening is oomiack. When the traveller is provided with this kind of a bed,
he does not trouble himself to make a snow lodge for the night, ..."
8. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Seas, in the by John Franklin, John Richardson (1828)
"The most active young man of the party, not thinking himself sufficiently smart
for the occasion, retired to the oomiack to change his dress and mouth ..."
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