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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
push a canoe through shallow water while wading behind or beside it.
Quotations
1952
For a whole day long, I poled, lined and "frogged" the outfit up the river, shoving the canoe and load over a huge cottonwood . . . portaging the outfit up a sandbar in the middle of the stream at a point where dangerous driftpiles lined both banks. Luckily it was warm, for "frogging," in Finlay River parlance, means wading the canoe upstream.
1966
They were travelling against the latter end of the flood by the old-time methods of pole, line and "frogging"--that is, wading upstream and lugging the canoe by hand up the riffles.