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Hudson's Bay wind
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n.
a method of lashing loads to pack-horses, presumably used in the horse brigades of the Hudson's Bay Company.
See: horse brigade
Quotations
1887
Then there is the "Hudson Bay Wind," which we never tried, but which we are informed consists of winding a few score yards of rope round pack and horse, as if you were putting splints on a broken arm.