DCHP-1 Online
Hambro line Obs. 
a strong light line made in Hamburg, Germany, used for tracking canoes.
- 1793 (1933) The canoe line is not a stout cable as used by Boats but consists of fine Hambro lines loosely twisted upon one another and is about 60 yards long.
- 1798 (1918) Each canoe had . . . a few Hambro lines [and] a bundle of watap. . . .
- 1933 Hambro lines were, according to Landmann, part of the standard equipment of every canoe, but neither he nor Macdonell gives any description of them.
- 1793 (1933) The canoe line is not a stout cable as used by Boats but consists of fine Hambro lines loosely twisted upon one another and is about 60 yards long.