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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a dog-team, often including the driver and fore runner, as well as the dogs.
Quotations
1910
In olden days in the winter a sled team used to leave Fort Garry in Manitoba and proceed along the Red River to Lake Winnipeg.
1914
. . . Clarke's friends were unable to find food enough for sled-teams.
1928
A 'bred' fisherman by the name of Colin Mackenzie assured me that the most terrible mess-up he had ever seen occurred when two six-dog sled-teams got to fighting in a canoe containing a score of sturgeon lines.