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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kahy-ak |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkaɪ æk |
Définition of kayak
Origin :- 1757, from Danish kajak, from Greenland Eskimo qayaq, literally "small boat of skins." The verb is attested from 1875, from the noun.
- As in canoe : noun light, paddled boat
- We supposed that the paddle and the harpoon went with the kayak.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- While we were at breakfast, Weymouth came down to report a kayak coming off.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- The backbone will turn into a kayak and carry you safely to the island.
- Extract from : « A Treasury of Eskimo Tales » by Clara Kern Bayliss
- “But where the kayak and the oomiak cannot float the sledge may go,” said the Captain.
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Will you send a young man in a kayak to Poloeland with a message from me to my people?
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
- He borrowed a kayak of one of the natives, and went as an independent hunter.
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Even I would not shape my spear to destroy my kayak—and he must be wiser than me.
- Extract from : « The Walrus Hunters » by R.M. Ballantyne
- The men, therefore, lifted him also out of his kayak and laid him beside his lieutenant.
- Extract from : « The Walrus Hunters » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Our Eskimo was making for the coast where he had left his kayak, and had halted for a feed.
- Extract from : « The Walrus Hunters » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Just then a young man was seen advancing from the beach, where he had left his kayak.
- Extract from : « The Walrus Hunters » by R.M. Ballantyne
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