Definition of "oomiak" [oomiak]

• Variant of umiak. (noun)

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• "The oomiak is the open boat of skin used by Eskimo _women_, and is capable of holding several persons."
• "I am Naass, a chief, and the son of a chief, born between a sunset and a rising, on the dark seas, in my father's oomiak."
• "So that night I added till it became a great pile, and I hauled up my oomiak, which was of the value of twenty kayaks."