Definition of "malemute" []

• Variant of malamute. (noun)

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• "The dog of the title, neither husky nor malemute nor Hudson's Bay, "looked like all of them and none of them — a yellow-brown-red-dirty-white in color with a spot of coal-black," for which the narrator and his partner paid $110."
• "Out of the gloom to the right came the faint complaining howl of a malemute; it was answered by his own dogs, and the next moment they had caught a scent which swerved them shoreward and led them scrambling through the drifts."
• "Although far removed from their Siberian husky and malemute cousins, these mixed breeds of all sizes and colours do have something in common with the better known sled-pullers."