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Definition of Tupiks
1. tupik [n] - See also: tupik
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tupiks
Literary usage of Tupiks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century: Being by Samuel Mosheim Smucker (1886)
"The oil is burned in lamps which light and warm the tupiks during the long, dark
winter nights. "They hunt seals on the ice in the spring and fall, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The tents, or tupiks, are made of sealskin; the igloos, or winter houses, are
far more varied in structure among the different groups. ..."
3. A Tenderfoot with Peary by George Borup (1911)
"Kane says the Eskimos have little or no affection for their families, but perhaps
he never saw such a scene as we did on landing. The tupiks were ..."
4. Secrets of Polar Travel by Robert Edwin Peary (1917)
"... a family out of the permanent habitation, is constructed of snow, lined, in
the case of the more-well-to-do Eskimos, with their skin tupiks, or tents. ..."
5. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic by Robert Edwin Peary (1910)
"When I went ashore at Cape York I found there four or five families, living in
their summer tupiks, or skin tents, From them I learned what had happened in ..."
6. The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World by Herman Dieck (1885)
"A sheltered place for the tupiks became a necessity. On the 18th Hall's journal
says: "It has been moving-day with us, and an interesting picture might have ..."
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