Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Eskimo boots of sealskin or caribou-skin reaching up to the knee or to near the hip.
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- noun A
mukluk .
Etymologies
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From Inuktitut
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Examples
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She always carried the case in her kamik, so it would not be lost.
The Eskimo Twins 1914
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She always carried the case in her kamik, so it would not be lost.
The Eskimo Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901
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Perforce, he was compelled to thaw it out in the usual way; that is, taking off his kamik and placing his freezing foot under my bearskin shirt, the heat of my body thawing out the frozen member.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888
chained_bear commented on the word kamik
"Edna uses the leg skins for kamiks, the sealskin-lined boots that she, Heimo, and the girls wear throughout winter; she boils the hoofs and bones for soup, and uses the leg bones and attached meat for stew. This leaves only the horns, which Heimo often sells to a Fairbanks horn buyer...."
—James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 265
September 17, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word kamik
"Though the weather was rather chilly and wet, soldiers in fur-lined trapper hats, mittens, and kamiks were loitering in front of the barracks, playing curling or some rather clumsy soccer, with an air of relaxed resignation to the well-known drabness of the soldiering life."
Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat, p 23
July 19, 2011