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ooksook
[< West Esk. uqsuq]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
seal blubber.
Quotations
1864
A portion of seal's liver, raw and warm from its late existence in full life . . . This, with a slice of ooksook (blubber), was handed to each, and I made away with mine as quick as any of the old adepts.
1934
. . . she did not have to worry as to where her next feed of seal meat, or ookchuk, was coming from. . . .
1942
For in winter there is only the flame of ooksook in the kudliak, which gives a fair light, a lot of smoke and bad odor and a heat that is very low.