chinook

The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.

The note promised to send more pictures “like before,” and included a photograph of a Chinook helicopter unloading supplies.

Chinook For this crowd, a spelling bee is no matter to be joked about.

Next he says a double rotor Chinook landed inside the compound.

Need I add that tum-tum in the Chinook jargon signifies the soul!

Having made friends, he told me in a mixture of broken English and Chinook some of the old folk lore of his tribe.

But few of them speak the English language fluently; they mostly talk French and Chinook jargon.

The idea expressed in English by the sentence I came to give it to her is rendered in Chinook by i-n-i-a-l-u-d-am.

Thus began and ended our first lesson in the Chinook jargon, and our first experience with a clam bake.