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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kahy-ak |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkaɪ æk |
Définition of kayaks
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
- Six of them immediately dropped into their kayaks and set off after him.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- Like the kayaks, it was covered with seal-skin; or perhaps it might have been the hide of the walrus.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- But they had nothing with them to trade off to us, save their kayaks, paddles, and harpoons.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- The two men remain a week in a camp to make their kayaks seaworthy.
- Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin
- It was impossible to venture out on the open sea in the kayaks.
- Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin
- The men all ran to their kayaks eager to secure the beautiful creature.
- Extract from : « A Treasury of Eskimo Tales » by Clara Kern Bayliss
- In a few minutes more the boat was surrounded by the fleet of kayaks.
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
- A few days more and we should be there if we only had our kayaks.
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
- With shouts of delight the Eskimos jumped into their kayaks and followed.
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
- The fleet of kayaks converged towards the fish like a flock of locusts.
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
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