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Eskimo sled
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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an open Eskimo dog-sled. See picture at komatik n.
See: komatik ((n.))
Quotations
1770
An Esquimau sled . . . is made of two spruce planks, each twenty-one feet long, fourteen inches broad, and two inches thick, which are hewn out of separate trees (because they are not acquainted with the use of the pitsaw).
1852
It has also the advantage of not sinking in the snow when it is soft; whereas the Esquimaux sledges would sink to their full depth in it.
1914
Above Hanbury's Kopje we came on the track of an Eskimo sled and pushed on fully expecting to find the Eskimos at the lake.