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tracking belt
North, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a shoulder belt attached to a track-rope to increase pulling power.
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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.