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- noun Plural form of
pulk .
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Examples
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In the Arctic, however, pulling 100kg "pulks" - small, loaded toboggans - over unforgiving terrain, his injury was a serious handicap.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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They will then travel to the first expedition base camp using 'pulks' (sledges) and skis.
Kos RSS Feed 2010
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They will then travel to the first expedition base camp using 'pulks' (sledges) and skis.
Kos RSS Feed 2010
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We set out again at noon, down the frozen bed of a stream which drains the lakes, but had not proceeded far before both deers and pulks began to break through the ice, probably on account of springs under it.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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The others were harnessed to _pulks_, the canoe-shaped reindeer sledges, many of which were filled with stores and baggage.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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The night was very dark, and we began to grow exceedingly tired of sitting flat in our pulks.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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A lot of pulks lay in front of it, and the old Finn stood already with a fir torch, waiting to light us in.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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As far as Palajärvi we ran with our gunwales below the snow-level, while the foremost pulks were frequently swamped under the white waves that broke over them.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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On emerging from the dell we found a gentle slope before us, covered with hard ice, down which our pulks flew like the wind.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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The caravan was soon stopped, that the pulks might be turned bottom upwards and the ice scraped off, which, like the barnacles on a ship's hull, impeded their progress through the snow.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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