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netchek [< Esk.]

n. a small seal, as the ring seal or the harbor seal. Also spelled netsek, netserk, netsik, nutchook, etc.
See also: harbo(u)r seal
- 1852 [Small seal Labrador Eskimo netsi-arksuk; netsek.]
- 1854 (1892) The netsik will not perforate ice of more than one season's growth, and are looked for, therefore, where there was open water the previous year.
- 1934 He will remember the happy faced Eskimos, the huskies and their howling, the netchek-seals, the caribou. . . .
- 1942 Bob's sealskin pants were made from the soft, dull, dark-mottled netchek, and every little hair in them glistened as he bent over the flaming stove.
- 1958 Those were "netserk" or ringed seals which remain here all the year round and on which the Eskimo depends for his clothing.