Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of semilunar knife used by Eskimo women.
Examples
“High school students performing the Ma'ulu'ulu traditional dance.”
“It's "ulu"; I have to give taxi drivers directions so that they can drive me home and sometimes it's easier to just mention Ngee Ann Poly or Sunset Way so that the taxi drivers have a rough idea where Clementi Street 13 is.”
“We look forward to finding out what opportunities might exist, such as creation of a commercial market for breadfruit or development of value-added products such as 'ulu breads, pancakes or flour," he said.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible
“Robin Campaniano, general partner of Ulupono Initiative, the Omidyars' investment fund and philanthropic organization, says 'ulu, as breadfruit is called in Hawaiian, could cut down Hawaii's estimated 90% reliance on food imports.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible
“Hundreds of Inuit at a community festival gathered yesterday as Jean knelt above a pair of seal carcasses and used a traditional ulu blade to slice the meat off the skin.”
Canada's Governor General reeks of awesomeness (and just a hint of seal heart)
“Then without warning in July 2010 he developed ulu like symptoms that sent him to the Sheridan VA Medical Center.”
“To all thanks for the info on the ulu as that is exactly what I was refering to in a previous entry but could not remember the name and was obviously too lazy to look it up.”
“There is, seemingly, nothing that requires knife work that they could not do with the ulu - which they employed in various sizes from quite small, for work around the head and lips, to quite large for the overall fleshing of the whole hide.”
“Kenneth "Kenny" Tagarook teased as he sliced another piece of frozen raw caribou meat for me with his ulu - a hand-sized, flat piece of metal with a small handle opposite the sharp, curved edge.”
“He sliced little finger-size pieces for me with his ulu - a traditional knife for cutting meat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ulu’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 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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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
amatorio, esemplastic, etesian, cholecystitis, chantepleure, paternoster, mondegreen, aporia, kairos, idioglossia, klepht, phansigar and 238 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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The Emergency
Words picked up from my readings about the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960).
sakai, basha, auster, lalang, caliban, dyaks, makan, altap, belukar, kampong, ulu, gunong and 3 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 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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Is this a dagger I see before me?
Or a kris? A rapier? A double-bladed hackmonger?
interesting bladesdagger, sword, knife, snee, snickersnee, bayonet, blade, kris, bolo, katana, rapier, lance and 41 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, U
udder, undercarriage, umpteen, umbrage, upholstery, unnerving, ubiquitous, ultraviolet, untoward, upheaval, unabashed, uncanny and 86 more...
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Breadfruit
A delicious and useful fruit and plant! I'm collecting words related to the botany and uses, cultivars, anything really.
breadfruit, arbor de pan, breadnut, chataignier, pao de massa, broodvrucht, castano de malabar, pan de todo el ano, tupan, mazapan, sukun, marure and 58 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ulu.
bilby "My grandmother loved breadfruit. For years, I thought Ulu had to be cooked in the ashes of a fire, wrapped in foil or ti leaf, so that the edges burned just a little and the insides were chewy and brown."
- The Breadfruit Cookbook. Oct 20, 2009
oroboros According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the shortest (with two others, uku & utu) "uncommon word" beginning and ending with letter 'u'. Jun 1, 2008
errguitar Ulu: Jungle, Glossary of Words, "Green Beret, Red Star" by Anthony Crockett, London 1954, Eyre & Spottiswoode May 19, 2008
bilby "Artefacts have also surfaced, making suggestions about how people lived in Nuvuk. Here, a body holds an ulu, a traditional knife used for taking blubber from whale carcasses; there, a grave gives up weights from a bolus which would have been used to hunt birds."
- 'Bodies Point To Alaska's Past', Richard Black, BBC website 31 Dec 2007.
Jan 1, 2008