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- noun Plural form of
mucluc .
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Examples
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The men were busy fashioning spears and carving on ivory, while the women scraped the fat from the hides of the hair seal and made them pliable or sewed muclucs with threads of sinew.
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In token of my appreciation, and in return for the moccasins on your own feet, I will present to you these muclucs.
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On the Inside he sold flour, and blankets, and tobacco; built saw-mills, staked townsites, and sought properties in copper, iron, and coal; and that the miners should be well-equipped, ransacked the lands of the Arctic even as far as Siberia for native-made snow-shoes, muclucs, and parkas.
CHAPTER 5 2010
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The men wore their wolf - and beaver-skin caps, with the gay-tasselled ear-flaps flying free, while on their feet were the moose-skin moccasins and walrus-hide muclucs of the north.
CHAPTER 11 2010
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The muclucs are in his possession, and he will verify, not the manner in which they were obtained, but the material of which they are composed.
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The men were busy fashioning spears and carving on ivory, while the women scraped the fat from the hides of the hair seal and made them pliable or sewed muclucs with threads of sinew.
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Also she laid beside me my parka of caribou hide, and my rain coat of seal gut, and my wet-weather muclucs, that my soul should be warm and dry on its long journey.
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Stevens gives his camp friend the mammoth muclucs for a supply of tobacco and in the end Narrator bids the skeptical reader to visit the Smithsonian Institution and ask for Prof. Dolvidson who will attest they were made from the hide of a mammoth.
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008
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The surface they presented was glassy as that of his muclucs, and when both surfaces came together his feet shot out and he fell on his face, sliding downward, and convulsively clutching for something to stay himself.
Up The Slide 1993
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He would have taken off his muclucs and gone at it in his socks, only the cold was thirty below zero, and at such temperature his feet would quickly freeze.
Up The Slide 1993
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