hand

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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drag a canoe upstream by hand, walking ahead, hand on gunwale.

Quotations

1809

. . . then up the little River which had also good Water, except the upper part which is rapid & shoal, here we handed much.

1934

Lutit was evidently "handing" the canoe up the rapid, walking in the water in front of it, and dragging it up after him.

1950

In "handing," the men waded in the stream, keeping hold of the gunwale of the canoe and dragging it upstream against the swift current.