Definition of Pulka

1. Noun. An animal-drawn sleigh (gloss sledge) of a particular sort. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pulka

1. a Laplander's sledge [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulka

pulers
pules
puli
pulicene
pulicide
pulicides
pulicine
pulier
puliest
pulik
puling
pulingly
pulings
pulis
pulk
pulka (current term)
pulkas
pulkha
pulkhas
pulks
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Literary usage of Pulka

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"The Sledge, or pulka. — Natural Beauties of Lapland. — Attachment of the Lapps to their Country. — Bear-hunting. — Wolf-hunting. ..."

2. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"The Sledge, or pulka. — Natural Beauties of Lapland. — Attachment of the Lapps to their Country. —Bear-hunting. — Wolf-hunting. ..."

3. Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags by William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney (1860)
"... pulka, where part of the hull of an American ship, wrecked some time before, still remained as a guide to voyagers. As the sun went down, the wind fell, ..."

4. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"But the instant Titus perceived that every one who wished to distinguish himself in society must learn the pulka —not to mention the valse a deux temps and ..."

5. A Winter in Iceland and Lapland by Arthur Edmund Denis Lee-Dillon Dillon (1840)
"The sensation was so new, and the exercise of balancing.the pulka so violent at first, that I was soon thrown into a perspiration. ..."

6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1852)
"The animal may be in quickest motion, but so soon as I pull the strap to the side, it stands still. In driving in the pulka, we make use of cloaks of ..."

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