Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Inuit or Yupik knife having an arched blade fixed to a central handle, used especially for skinning, chopping, and carving.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of semilunar knife used by Eskimo women.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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High school students performing the Ma'ulu'ulu traditional dance.
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It's "ulu"; I have to give taxi drivers directions so that they can drive me home and sometimes it's easier to just mention Ngee Ann Poly or Sunset Way so that the taxi drivers have a rough idea where Clementi Street 13 is.
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Robin Campaniano, general partner of Ulupono Initiative, the Omidyars' investment fund and philanthropic organization, says 'ulu, as breadfruit is called in Hawaiian, could cut down Hawaii's estimated 90% reliance on food imports.
'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible Julia Flynn Siler 2011
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Hundreds of Inuit at a community festival gathered yesterday as Jean knelt above a pair of seal carcasses and used a traditional ulu blade to slice the meat off the skin.
Archive 2009-05-24 Tyler 2009
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Hundreds of Inuit at a community festival gathered yesterday as Jean knelt above a pair of seal carcasses and used a traditional ulu blade to slice the meat off the skin.
Canada's Governor General reeks of awesomeness (and just a hint of seal heart) Tyler 2009
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"We look forward to finding out what opportunities might exist, such as creation of a commercial market for breadfruit or development of value-added products such as 'ulu breads, pancakes or flour," he said.
'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible Julia Flynn Siler 2011
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Then without warning in July 2010 he developed ulu like symptoms that sent him to the Sheridan VA Medical Center.
R. B. Stuart: Honoring Our Nations Veterans as Cancer Stricken Soldiers Go Ignored R. B. Stuart 2010
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To all thanks for the info on the ulu as that is exactly what I was refering to in a previous entry but could not remember the name and was obviously too lazy to look it up.
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There is, seemingly, nothing that requires knife work that they could not do with the ulu - which they employed in various sizes from quite small, for work around the head and lips, to quite large for the overall fleshing of the whole hide.
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Then without warning in July 2010 he developed ulu like symptoms that sent him to the Sheridan VA Medical Center.
R. B. Stuart: Honoring Our Nations Veterans as Cancer Stricken Soldiers Go Ignored R. B. Stuart 2010
bilby commented on the word ulu
"Artefacts have also surfaced, making suggestions about how people lived in Nuvuk. Here, a body holds an ulu, a traditional knife used for taking blubber from whale carcasses; there, a grave gives up weights from a bolus which would have been used to hunt birds."
- 'Bodies Point To Alaska's Past', Richard Black, BBC website 31 Dec 2007.
January 1, 2008
errguitar commented on the word ulu
Ulu: Jungle, Glossary of Words, "Green Beret, Red Star" by Anthony Crockett, London 1954, Eyre & Spottiswoode
May 19, 2008
oroboros commented on the word ulu
According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the shortest (with two others, uku & utu) "uncommon word" beginning and ending with letter 'u'.
June 2, 2008
bilby commented on the word ulu
"My grandmother loved breadfruit. For years, I thought Ulu had to be cooked in the ashes of a fire, wrapped in foil or ti leaf, so that the edges burned just a little and the insides were chewy and brown."
- The Breadfruit Cookbook.
October 20, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word ulu
Usage/note in comment on umiak.
January 24, 2017