DCHP-2
kudlik koodlik, kotluk, kudeli, kudleh, kudlic, etc. [< Esk.; cf. East Esk. qulliq] Arctic DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a shallow, crescent-shaped dish of soapstone in which seal-oil or caribou fat is burned to provide light and heat for cooking in an Eskimo home.
See also: blubber lamp Eskimo (oil) lamp igloo (meaning 1a) seal lamp seal-oil lamp stone lamp
- 1748 [They also make use of this Oil for their Lamps, which are made of Stone, hollowed out with some Difficulty, and as artificially as can be well expected, considering the Tools they work with; and for the Wick, instead of Cotton, which we use, they have recourse to dryed Goose Dung, a very poor Shift indeed, but still better than none.]
- 1824 [Kollik--Lamp]
- 1855 (1892) The kotluk of each matron was glowing with a flame sixteen inches long.
- 1933 Heating and cooking is done over a seal-oil kudlik.
- 1952 The stone kudeli filled with caribou fat or seal oil has given place to the more efficient, though more costly, primus stove which consumes kerosene.
- 1965 They moved their families inside and soon the kud-lik, the seal oil soapstone lamp . . . would be burning. Its wick of moss, trimmed by a capable woman, gave off a warm glow fairly free of smoke, and a white pleasant flame.
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A kudlik
- 1748 [They also make use of this Oil for their Lamps, which are made of Stone, hollowed out with some Difficulty, and as artificially as can be well expected, considering the Tools they work with; and for the Wick, instead of Cotton, which we use, they have recourse to dryed Goose Dung, a very poor Shift indeed, but still better than none.]