单词 | women's boat |
释义 | > as lemmaswomen's boat women's boat n. a light open wooden-framed boat covered with animal skin, used primarily by the Inuit to convey people and goods and traditionally rowed by women; an umiak. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > skin kayak1767 women's boat1767 umiak1769 woman's boat1769 woman boat1831 bidarka1834 1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. iii. vi. 191 When a man dies, his eldest son inherits his tent and his women's-boat, that is, the paternal estate. 1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery p. xxx They had made a three years excursion along the eastern coast in a women's-boat. 1990 S. Harrison Mother Earth Father Sky i. i. 10 She and Chagak carried their women's boat, an open-topped ik, framed with driftweed, sheathed in sea lion hides, to the edge of the sea. < as lemmas |
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