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skin boat

• 1 a skin boat, 30-40 feet long, 4-5 feet wide, and 3 feet deep, having a flat bottom and narrowing at bow and stern, used for carrying freight and passengers and traditionally rowed by Eskimo women. [See picture at oomiak.]

  See also: oomiak (and picture)  

• 2 a light sealskin boat completely decked except for a cockpit to accommodate the hunter, who propels the craft with a double-bladed paddle. [See picture at kayak ((1)).]

  See also: kayak ((1)) (and picture)  

• 3 Northwest See 1956 quote.

  See also: skin canoe  (def. 2)