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kudlik
[< Esk.; cf. East Esk. qulliq]
Arctic
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:koodlik, kotluk, kudeli, kudleh, kudlic, etc.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a shallow, crescent-shaped dish of soapstone in which seal-oil or caribou fat is burned to provide light and heat for cooking in an Eskimo home.
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1748
[They also make use of this Oil for their Lamps, which are made of Stone, hollowed out with some Difficulty, and as artificially as can be well expected, considering the Tools they work with; and for the Wick, instead of Cotton, which we use, they have recourse to dryed Goose Dung, a very poor Shift indeed, but still better than none.]
1824
[Kollik--Lamp]
1855
The kotluk of each matron was glowing with a flame sixteen inches long.
1933
Heating and cooking is done over a seal-oil kudlik.
1952
The stone kudeli filled with caribou fat or seal oil has given place to the more efficient, though more costly, primus stove which consumes kerosene.
1965
They moved their families inside and soon the kud-lik, the seal oil soapstone lamp . . . would be burning. Its wick of moss, trimmed by a capable woman, gave off a warm glow fairly free of smoke, and a white pleasant flame.
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