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Definition of Muktuk
1. Noun. The skin and blubber of a whale, used as a traditional food by the Inuit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Muktuk
1. whale skin used for food [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muktuk
Literary usage of Muktuk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"You may not ever get another chance to eat muktuk yourself. If you can't make it
for the games, though, you can at least get a taste of what they're like at ..."
2. The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1914)
"... or muktuk scraper was used only during whaling by crews of boats engaged in
whaling or possibly by all who ate on ice. If blubber or muktuk were eaten ..."
3. New Classic Poems: Contemporary Verse that Rhymes : an Anthology / Compiled by McAlister, Neil Harding, 1952-, Day, Jonathan (2005)
"renamed to Iqaluit, now the capital of the Territory of Nunavut. Author's note: "muktuk
Annie " has been around the Arctic for many years, ..."
4. The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey Through Canada to the by Agnes Deans Cameron (1910)
"The wedding breakfast consisted of seal-meat, frozen rotten fish, and
muktuk (whale-meat). The ceremony took place at the igloo of Su-pi-di-do, ..."
5. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"You may not ever get another chance to eat muktuk yourself. If you can't make it
for the games, though, you can at least get a taste of what they're like at ..."
6. The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1914)
"... or muktuk scraper was used only during whaling by crews of boats engaged in
whaling or possibly by all who ate on ice. If blubber or muktuk were eaten ..."
7. New Classic Poems: Contemporary Verse that Rhymes : an Anthology / Compiled by McAlister, Neil Harding, 1952-, Day, Jonathan (2005)
"renamed to Iqaluit, now the capital of the Territory of Nunavut. Author's note: "muktuk
Annie " has been around the Arctic for many years, ..."
8. The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey Through Canada to the by Agnes Deans Cameron (1910)
"The wedding breakfast consisted of seal-meat, frozen rotten fish, and
muktuk (whale-meat). The ceremony took place at the igloo of Su-pi-di-do, ..."
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