DCHP-1 Online
dog-line 
1 n. Obs. one of the leather or webbing traces by which dogs are hitched to a sled.
- 1854 (1892) It was only after appropriating an undue share of his seal-skin breeches that the leader of the party succeeded in patching up his mutilated dog-lines.
2 n. a strong rope or line to which sled dogs are tethered when not working.
- 1941 The dog line is placed in a sack and loaded last.
- 1951 He always tried, after the first gallop, when the sled was moving well, to sweep around in a great curve and return to the dog line where he could take his ease.
- 1854 (1892) It was only after appropriating an undue share of his seal-skin breeches that the leader of the party succeeded in patching up his mutilated dog-lines.