umiak

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Recent Examples of umiak Instead, guardsmen showed up in umiaks with small outboard motors. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023 The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death. John Oseid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for umiak
Noun
  • The sweeping glass and cement lobby doubles as an art gallery, with a magnificent Mayan canoe running through it.
    David Shortell, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Neighbors and Henderson County Sheriff’s deputies came to the McNeelys' rescue in canoes, kayaks and paddle boards.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But those were mere skiffs by comparison with the general-entertainment battleships.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Tacketts rejected the Alaska State Trooper’s conclusion that their son had fallen out of the skiff and drowned.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Pull your boat or kayak directly up to the property before enjoying fresh, Italian seafood-forward dishes.
    Teaghan Skulszki, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The three occupants were rescued by kayak from the home's backyard due to the area's marshy terrain, Colleton County Fire-Rescue told ABC News.
    Mason Leath, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Chinese-style mud houses line the lake’s edge—their curved roofs reflected in still waters as wooden rowboats drift past floating lanterns.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Crossing the Pacific Ocean is a daunting task by any measure, but imagine doing it in a rowboat, completely unsupported.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Dozens have died in recent years trying to cross one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in overcrowded dinghies.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • An additional autonomous dinghy could serve as the above water collection point.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In a startling revelation, the crew members aboard this intergalactic garbage scow turn out to be the descendants of American astronauts launched 200 years earlier during humanity's pre-warp, post-World War III days.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.
    Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Plunge into the pristine waters for snorkeling, kayaking, outrigger canoeing or stand-up paddleboarding.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And Ami just loses her footing and falls off the outrigger.
    EW.com, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Umiak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/umiak. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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