komatik

[koh-mat-ik]

noun

1. a sled made by binding crossbars to wooden runners with rawhide, invented and first used by the Inuit of northern Canada.

komatik

/ ˈkəʊmætɪk /

noun

1. a sledge having wooden runners and crossbars bound with rawhide, used by the Inuit and other related peoples

Word History and Origins

Origin of komatik¹

First recorded in 1815–25, komatik is from the Inuit word qamutik

Word History and Origins

Origin of komatik¹

C20: from Inuktitut (Labrador)

Example Sentences

Once, when Dr. Grenfell was wintering at St. Anthony, on the French shore, there came in great haste from Conch, a point sixty miles distant, a komatik with an urgent summons to the bedside of a man who lay dying of hemorrhage.

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And while the doctor was preparing for this journey, a second komatik, despatched from another place, arrived with a similar message.

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Meantime, a komatik had arrived in haste from a point on the northwest coast—a settlement one hundred and twenty miles distant.

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But in the fall, when navigation closes, she must go into winter quarters; and then the sick and starving are sought out by dog-team and komatik.

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Seventeen men had come for the physician, willing to haul the komatik themselves, if no dogs were to be had.

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