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track-rope
North, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a heavy rope used for dragging or hauling sleds, boats, etc.
See: track-line(def. 1)
Quotations
1850
. . . each man had for safety his tracking belt . . . so fastened to the track-rope that he could not well fall through any hole without first letting himself loose.
1854
. . . a large sled with broad runners . . . was taken down, scraped, polished, lashed, and fitted with trackropes and rue-raddies--the lines arranged to draw as near as possible in a line with the centre of gravity.