Definitions
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- noun A
kayak constructed by covering a light wooden frame (lashed together with sinew) insea lion hides.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(First published in Ainslee's Magazine, Aug, 1902) A bidarka, is it not so?
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The bidarka is a frail, narrow framework over which is stretched walrus skin, and it is so fashioned that the crew sits, one behind the other, in circular openings with legs straight out in front.
The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Except when wide yaws took it off its course, a bidarka was heading in for the beach.
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Two of the men hoisted the bidarka on their shoulders and carried it up to the fire.
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There be room in his bidarka for two, and he would that thou camest with him.
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The children ran down the beach in advance of her, and as the man in the bidarka drew closer, nearly capsizing with one of his ill-directed strokes, the women followed.
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But Koogah, shoving Nam-Bok clear of the beach, tore the shawl from her shoulders and flung it into the bidarka.
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"Thou wast bidarka-mate with me when we were boys," he said.
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He pulled from the bidarka a shawl, marvellous of texture and color, and flung it about his mother's shoulders.
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The bidarka turned broadside and the ripple of surf threatened to swamp it, only a naked boy ran into the water and pulled the bow high up on the sand.
chained_bear commented on the word bidarka
"The owner of the plant did an extensive trade up and down the coast and it was said natives from Diomede Islands and Alaska paddled over in their canoes and bidarkas to buy his liquor."
--Walter Noble Burns, A Year with a Whaler, 135 (italics in original)
April 28, 2008