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rowraddy
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North, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a shoulder belt attached to a track-rope to increase pulling power.
Quotations
1850
Little was there to dread, however; for, independent of the thickness of the ice, each man had for safety his tracking belt, called by them "rowraddy," so fastened to the trackrope that he could not well fall through any hole without first letting himself loose.
1853
Each man had his own shoulder-belt, or "rue-raddy," as we used to call it, and his own track-line, which, for want of horse-hair, was made of manilla rope; it traversed freely by a ring on a loop or bridle, that extended from runner to runner in front of the sledge.