komatik n also cometic, koamatic, komatic. The standard Inuit spelling is QAMUTIK.
1 1885 TUTTLE 53 With his dogs and skin-covered koamatic, Mr Ford makes winter trips for two or three hundred miles...gathering furs. 1982 MCDOOLING 68 The men would go after [moose and caribou] in the late fall or early winter when the komatiks could be used to transport the meat and when it was cold enough to keep it frozen. 1984 POWELL 38 We had to haul more flour on this trip and the kamutik, which pulled easier than the toboggan.
2 Attrib ~ box, ~ side.
1984 POWELL 85 Through the seams in the logs I could still see Uncle Alex sitting out on the kamutik box, so I thought this was no place for a patient that needed care. 1987 POOLE 17 The first week in April my dad was using a pit saw to cut a set of komatic sides.
