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v.
draw or lead a canoe, boat, scow, etc. through rapids, shallows, or other difficult stretches of water by means of a line or lines running from the craft to a man, or men, on the bank or shore.
Quotations
1925
". . . we picked up them scows for twenty dollars at Fort McMurray, an' we tracklined 'em up with a crew of Injuns. . . ."