Usage examples (10)

• Now, can I have the baidarka, or do I have to settle for the keys to the umiak?
• He sat with Nauja in the center of a spacious, open umiak as two of the young hunters paddled for him.
• No one minded waiting for the umiak when there was no wind for its sails since the thirty-foot-long craft carried enough fresh food in it that they rarely had to stop to...
• The open-water leads had ended not very far west of the inlet leading south to Back's River — the narrowing strait there was solid ice pack — so they'd had to beach and hide...