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ooloo [< Esk. ulu]

• n. an Eskimo woman's general purpose knife, having a crescent-shaped blade and a handle of bone, ivory, wood, etc. [See picture at ooloo.]

  See also: woman's knife  

  • 1824  [Ollo Chopping knife]
  • 1864  The first-mentioned article being too small for my dimensions, one of the Innuit women slit them down with her oodloo till they did fit, after a fashion.
  • 1940  The women then take their semicircular knives or "ooloos," and flench the hide from the blubber, which the men load into the drums.
  • 1964  Some Eskimo women want their favorite ulu to be buried with them.
  • 1966  [Caption] A gas lamp hangs from the centre of the tent. Mother sits chewing, her ooloo in her hand. Bannock is slowly cooking in an iron pot hung above an old camp stove.