Definitions
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- noun A type of
dog fromAlaska , often used as asled dog
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun breed of sled dog developed in Alaska
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Examples
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The dog of the title, neither husky nor malemute nor Hudson's Bay, "looked like all of them and none of them — a yellow-brown-red-dirty-white in color with a spot of coal-black," for which the narrator and his partner paid $110.
“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008
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Out of the gloom to the right came the faint complaining howl of a malemute; it was answered by his own dogs, and the next moment they had caught a scent which swerved them shoreward and led them scrambling through the drifts.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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Although far removed from their Siberian husky and malemute cousins, these mixed breeds of all sizes and colours do have something in common with the better known sled-pullers.
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Although far removed from their Siberian husky and malemute cousins, these mixed breeds of all sizes and colours do have something in common with the better known sled-pullers.
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"I can tell an Arctic man, just as I can pick a Herschel dog or an Athabasca country malemute from a pack of fifty.
God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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"I can tell an Arctic man, just as I can pick a Herschel dog or an Athabasca country malemute from a pack of fifty.
God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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"I can tell an Arctic man, just as I can pick a Herschel dog or an Athabasca country malemute from a pack of fifty.
God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
skipvia commented on the word malemute
See malamute.
October 14, 2007