lead ((v.))

[lid]

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

Quotations

1775

We passed over several Falls leading Canoes in Places. . . .

1778

Willm Lutit in attempting to Lead the Canoe up a fall was taken off his Legs by the Current and carried into the stream. . . .