DCHP-3

dog-line

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Obs.

one of the leather or webbing traces by which dogs are hitched to a sled.

Quotations

1854
It was only after appropriating an undue share of his seal-skin breeches that the leader of the party succeeded in patching up his mutilated dog-lines.
2n.

a strong rope or line to which sled dogs are tethered when not working.

Quotations

1941
The dog line is placed in a sack and loaded last.
1951
He always tried, after the first gallop, when the sled was moving well, to sweep around in a great curve and return to the dog line where he could take his ease.