Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An Inuit or Eskimo boat consisting of a light wooden frame covered with watertight skins except for a single or double opening in the center, and propelled by a double-bladed paddle.
- n. A lightweight canoe that is similar in design.
- v. To go, travel, or race in a kayak.
- v. To go or travel on (a body of water) by kayak: kayaked rapids of the Colorado River.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greenland, a light fishing-boat, made of sealskins stretched over a wooden frame, having in the middle of the upper side an opening to receive the fisherman, who wraps himself in a flap of sealskin, which is laced close around the hole to prevent the penetration of water.
- To hunt or travel in a kayak. Eskimo kayaking near Amadjuak Bay, Baffinland.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of small boat, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position.
- v. intransitive to use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak
- v. transitive to traverse a body of water by kayak.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.
WordNet 3.0
- v. travel in a small canoe
- n. a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos
Etymologies
- From Western Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qajaq, "man's boat"), from Proto-Eskimo *qyaq. (Wiktionary)
- Canadian Eskimo and Inuit qajaq. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Inuit, a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family that, via Danish, gave Global English the word kayak, now has fewer than fifty thousand speakers.”
“No – a sea kayak is a closed one person boat designed specifically for the ocean.”
“My sea kayak is all I need, has minimal storage and loops for a fishing pole – picture me as old man of the sea.”
“It's not surprising that kayaks are such excellent fishing craft-after all, the kayak is the original stalker's boat.”
“My kayak is a stable platform that allows me to fish comfortably, to move from time to time, and to distance myself from other fishermen.”
“Jackson kayak is located at Rock island, Tennessee, home of the ultimate freestyle hole, and the Brave wave.”
“In last three and half years it has equalized and exceeded it status with one of the leading and well-known names in kayak making.”
“Jackson kayak is not a very old name but definitely the most talked about and famous name.”
“I mean, when do I consider my job done is when I take a kayak from the borders of Turkey and land in Dubai's (ph) two weeks later.”
“In the individual races, four athletes reached semifinals: Scott Parsons (20th) and Brett Heyl (24th) in kayak, and Jeff Larimer (18th) and Austin Crane (23rd) in canoe.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kayak’.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
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Palindromes
tenet, �?ΙΨΟ�? Α�?ΟΜΗΜΑΤ..., rotator, kayak, tattarrattat, detartrated, racecar, level, step on no pets, fall leaves after..., level, madam, level!, reviver and 108 more...
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Wordnik Spam Inquiries
We get a lot of spam emails at Wordnik that fit this pattern: "Mr Bob Wilson here and i will like to know if you do have X for sale". The words on this list represent a subset of such requested items.
burnisher, shaper vise, salt spreader, soil pulveriser, bible, flutes, baffles, crucifix cross, proofer, gazebo, real bubble wrap, roller tray and 206 more...
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WF - palindromes
alula, anna, bib, bob, civic, dad, deed, dud, DVD, eve, ewe, eye and 91 more...
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From the Algonquin et al.
Words derived from the innumerable languages of native Americans and the First Nations of Canada. I want to shine some light on this underexposed etymological background to so many common (and som...
raccoon, persimmon, mummichog, caucus, bayou, caribou, geoduck, chipmunk, skunk, opossum, moose, squash and 84 more...
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my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DELIGHT
Words a dyslexic can't get wrong: Palindromes
retartrater, redivider, level, noon, rotor, civic, peep, eke, deed, tenet, reviver, hannah and 145 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
koyukon, chinook, coho, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit, samlet, parr and 221 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
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Loan words from Inuktitut
anorak, igloo, kayak, umiak, nasaaq, kabloona, piblokto, nunatak, pingo
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
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gorgonglare's list
the best
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vivek's list
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for kayak.
Prolagus See tricks in case you want to understand who used specific tags on a page. Dec 22, 2008
chained_bear I, like reesetee, suspect that this tag is the result of someone tagging an entire list at once (you know you can do that, right? Saves A LOT of time!).
In general, if you're like me at all, you'll see a lot of tags that may bug you in their inaccuracy or impenetrableness, but there's no way to change them unless you are the individual who tagged them as such. Tags help organize stuff, and that sometimes means a given tag is useful only for an individual rather than the collective. I know I have some tags that are important to me on specific lists, and I also know that some others don't like them. Dec 22, 2008
reesetee No, there isn't--and in any case, that person (who could very well be Yours Truly) may be using this as a sort of "shortcut" tag to avoid having to individually tag an entire list of words when tagging the whole list at once would do.
Don't know about anyone else, but as far as I'm concerned, you can tag words as you wish, so long as you're not insulting or offensive about it. :-) Dec 22, 2008
bilby No. Dec 22, 2008
BrainyBabe It is a boat, not a ship. Is there any way to remove someone else's erroneous tag? Dec 22, 2008