pana

Eskimo

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a knife about 15 inches long having a broad, straight blade and used primarily for cutting snow blocks for igloos (def. 1a).

Quotations

1942

They jabbered a little, testing the snow with a sharp jap of the pana, and then continued testing on down the ridge.

1958

Using a "panar" or snow-knife, he quickly cut snow blocks from the hard-packed cover of sea ice.