DCHP-2

komatik ((n.)) ka(h)motik, kamutik, kumotik, earlier commetik, etc. [< East Esk. qamutik, dual of qamut sled runner] North DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.