headline

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — North

a strong leather line attached to the front of a dog-sled, to permit the driver to aid the dogs when the difficult terrain requires it.

Quotations

1924

Others [toboggans] have the tanned leather wrapper with the head and tail lines.

1956

Then will come another portage, an uphill portage. You'll grab the headline of the sleigh, pull with the dogs. . . .