"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.
According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the shortest (with two others, uku & utu) "uncommon word" beginning and ending with letter 'u'.
Ulu: Jungle, Glossary of Words, "Green Beret, Red Star" by Anthony Crockett, London 1954, Eyre & Spottiswoode
"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.