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Definition of Kaiak
1. kayak [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kaiak
Literary usage of Kaiak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"Lands on the Island of kaiak.— Shameful Conduct of Bering.— Shipwreck on Bering
Island.— Bering's Death.— Return to Kamchatka.— Loss of Property. ..."
2. Eskimo Life by Fridtjof Nansen (1894)
"But when one has acquired by practice a mastery of the kaiak and of the ...
The kaiak is beyond comparison the best boat for a single oarsman ever invented. ..."
3. Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch (1892)
"While the kaiak, however, differs so much in external appearance in different
localities, it is probable that in structure it is everywhere essentially the ..."
4. The Sia by Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1894)
"from, the hole where the rower sits to the stern of the kaiak. ... With that
exception the to]) of the Hudson strait kaiak is Hat on the top. ..."
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