backband

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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that part of a sled-dog's harness that goes over his back. See picture at sled dog.

Quotations

1900

There was an ingathering of backbands, a tightening of traces; the sleds leaped forward. . . .

1944

. . . he took the bells out of the carriole, where they had laid muffled in an old blanket, and fastened them to the backbands of the dogs' harness.