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komatik ((n.)) ka(h)motik, kamutik, kumotik, earlier commetik, etc. [< East Esk. qamutik, dual of qamut sled runner] North

n. an open Eskimo dog-sled.
See also: Eskimo sled
- 1824 [Kamotik--Sledge]
- 1853 They are short and well made, are fed principally on seal and blubber, and are so hardy that six or eight of them tackled to a heavily laden sledge or 'commettek' will travel as much as twenty leagues in a day.
- 1905 Making their harness and the komatik, or sleigh, and feeding the dogs and driving them to and from the woods, was always more play than work to me.
- 1965 The dog sled, or komatik, has replaced the bicycle for northern Cubs.