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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v.
pull a sled with the traces passing over the shoulder near the neck.
Quotations
1937
Men dragging sleds straggled up the river, "necking" it to the "pot of gold at the Rainbow's end".
1954
As we drove along we overtook brawny young men "necking" heavy sleighloads of provisions home from town (the traces passed around their necks).
2v.
draw or lead a canoe, boat, scow, etc. through rapids, shallows, or other difficult stretches of water by means of a line or lines running from the craft to a man, or men, on the bank or shore.
See: track
Quotations
1940
At other times you neck the boat up the river, that is, walk along the river bar some distance ahead of the boat, tugging against a rope which is attached on one end to the bow and the other to the stern.