netchek

[< Esk.]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small seal, as the ring seal or the harbor seal. Also spelled netsek, netserk, netsik, nutchook, etc.

Quotations

1852

[Small seal Labrador Eskimo netsi-arksuk; netsek.]

1854

The netsik will not perforate ice of more than one season's growth, and are looked for, therefore, where there was open water the previous year.

1934

He will remember the happy faced Eskimos, the huskies and their howling, the netchek-seals, the caribou. . . .

1942

Bob's sealskin pants were made from the soft, dull, dark-mottled netchek, and every little hair in them glistened as he bent over the flaming stove.

1958

Those were "netserk" or ringed seals which remain here all the year round and on which the Eskimo depends for his clothing.