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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a long rope used to secure the load on a pack animal, sled, etc. Also lashing-rope.
See: lash-line
Quotations
1887
The lash rope is from thirty to forty feet long, terminating at one end in a synch (girth) of ordinary size, the end of which remote from the lash rope is furnished with a large smooth wooden hook, in which a rope can run easily.
1912
By loading-time they've got such grass bellies on them that I has to be quite severe with the lash ropes. They hold their wind while I cinch them, and that's how their stomach's get kicked.
1941
Lashing ropes for the load are necessary. . . .