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Example sentences for "bladed paddle"

  • The double-bladed paddle can be made of a single piece, or two pieces can be joined by a ferrule (Fig.

  • The double-bladed paddle can be from about 7' to 8' or 9' long and the blades are made broader and shorter than that of the single paddle.

  • Small boats are propelled by a single broad-bladed paddle; sails also are employed with the crean or keeled canoe.

  • These rafts are about eighteen feet long and tapering toward both ends; some are large enough to carry four or five men; they are propelled with a double-bladed paddle, held in the middle and worked alternately on both sides.

  • The kaiyaks are impelled by a double-bladed paddle, used with or without a central rest, and the umiaks with oars.

  • The native of Norton Sound will twirl his kyak completely over, turn an aquatic somersault, and by the aid of his double-bladed paddle come up safely on the other side, without even losing his seat.

  • A double-bladed paddle is generally used with this kayak.

  • The Indian bark canoes were most efficient watercraft for use in forest travel; they were capable of being propelled easily with a single-bladed paddle.

  • Shown in the drawing is the type of long-and narrow-bladed paddle used.

  • No waves can dash into, although they can sweep over it; and if by chance it should upset, the Eskimo can turn it and himself up into the proper position by one dexterous sweep of his long, double-bladed paddle.

  • The South Sea islanders also use a canoe which they propel with a double-bladed paddle similar to that of the Eskimos.

  • But when one has acquired by practice a mastery of the kaiak and of the two-bladed paddle, one can get through the water in all sorts of weather at an astonishing speed.

  • Among the Eskimos on the south-west coast of Alaska the one-bladed paddle is universal; not until we come north of the Yukon River do we find two-bladed paddles, and even there the single blade is still the more common.

  • It is propelled by a two-bladed paddle, which is held in the middle and dipped in the water on each side in turn, like the paddles we use in canoes.

  • This is a man sitting in a kaiak in the attitude of paddling on the left side with a single-bladed paddle.

  • The double-bladed paddle is almost exclusively an Eskimo contrivance.

  • For ordinary traveling they use a single-bladed paddle (anun), of the same shape as those used in the umiak but usually somewhat smaller, of which we neglected to procure a specimen.


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