DCHP-3

tractor swing

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a tractor-drawn train of sleds and cabooses (def. 5), the principal means of transporting freight, supplies, etc. in the Canadian North in winter.

See: caboose(def. 5),cat-train

Quotations

1959
. . . he was at Churchill, waiting for an Easter Sunday snowstorm to stop, so he could fly north to oversee his tractor swing on the ice of Hudson Bay.