coach n Comb coach box: box for passenger, fastened on a 'komatik'; WOMAN BOX; KOMATIK ~.
   1887 Telegram Christmas No 5 Dinner is served, the dogs are harnessed, the 'komatik' brought to the door, and, enveloped in buffalo, bear, and other skins, with many injunctions to the drivers to take care of the rapids, the rosy, laughing crowd are tucked in the coachbox, and, with one crack of the whip and signal to the head dog, they are gone. C 71-124 When komatiks were drawn by dogs, a wooden box, large enough for a man to lie down in, was put on the komatik especially to carry a sick person. This was called a coach box. 1973 GOUDIE 77 We loaded up the kamutik. The coachbox Jim built for me and the children was about six feet long. It was wider at the top than at the bottom to give me room to hold the children... The coachbox was covered over with canvas, something like those that were used for a horse and wagon. 1975 WHITELEY 268 The coach box was fastened to the komatik by cords and in it were placed a feather bed, pillows and rugs. The traveller was carefully tucked into the box.

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