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Definition of Pulkha
1. n. A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.
Definition of Pulkha
1. Noun. A sledge used for travel by Laplanders. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pulkha
1. pulka [n -S] - See also: pulka
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulkha
Literary usage of Pulkha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into Alaska by Sheldon Jackson, United States Bureau of Education (1906)
"Upon investigation we found that one big male deer had come around the Finn's
tent, evidently looking for fish, and gotten a large empty pulkha entangled by ..."
2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"... but when they found that the train moved as steadily as any reindeer pulkha
on the mountains of Lapland they loosened their grips on the seats and began ..."
3. Norsk, Lapp, and Finn or, travel tracings from the far north of Europe. by Frank Vincent (1881)
"The sled or sleigh drawn by reindeer, called a pulkha, and employed for winter
travel in Lapland, resembles somewhat the carriole without its wheels. ..."
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