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aglu
[< Esk.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:aglo, agloo, igloo
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a breathing-hole in ice, made by seals.
Quotations
1836
[Seal-hole Ag-loo.]
1864
While Koojesse kept hold of the line, four or five fathoms long, the seal worked itself hastily back into the igloo, its birthplace, and there made a plunge down the seal-hole into the sea.
1881?
"According to the old traditions and customs--the Mosaic Law of the Esquimaux, so to speak--no work of any kind; except the drying of them, can be done upon new skins until the ice has formed sufficiently thickly upon the salt water to permit the hunter to seek the seal at his agloo or blow-hole."
1959
He does this by going from one hole, or aglu, to another, to keep the holes open as the ice freezes.