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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n. — Esp. North
the action or activity of one who tracks.
Quotations
1775
Our Distance about 24 miles, at 22 Miles Tracking. . . .
1847
. . . tracking was equally laborious, and the water too deep in most places for using poles.
1938
. . . tracking has become a lost art. The name applies to the method of hauling a boat against the current from the shore by means of a longrope attached to it in such a manner that the boat was almost in a state of balance--the current tended to force it out while the pull of the rope counteracted this.
1965
The steep climb up is achieved by a bruising marathon of poling, tracking, portaging, and wading. . . .
2n.
See quote.
Quotations
1866
Moose hunting lasts throughout the autumn and winter, and there are several different methods of pursuing the sport, as "calling," "driving," "creeping," and "tracking," or hunting on snow-shoes, sometimes called "crusting."