DCHP-3

break track

Rare
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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move ahead of a dog team, a vehicle, or a party of people, making a way through heavy snow, often on snowshoes.

See: beat the path,break<i>v.</i> def. (2a),break trail

Quotations

1900
The custom is for the men to take the lead, "breaking track" as they go, and for the women and children to follow... .