malamute
/ˈmaləmjuːt
/(also malemute)
noun
A powerful dog of a breed with a thick, grey coat, bred by the Inuit and used to pull sledges.I am most fortunate to have two large, beautiful, eight year old malamutes....
- They're the sprinters, he says, whereas malamutes are sloggers, which were used in days of yore for hauling heavy freight.
- The malamute enjoyed hard work and preferred to unload their cargoes as manually as he could get away with.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Inuit malimiut, the name of a people of western Alaska, who developed the breed.
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