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frog 
v. push a canoe through shallow water while wading behind or beside it.
- 1952 For a whole day long, I poled, lined and "frogged" the outfit up the river, shoving the canoe and load over a huge cottonwood . . . portaging the outfit up a sandbar in the middle of the stream at a point where dangerous driftpiles lined both banks. Luckily it was warm, for "frogging," in Finlay River parlance, means wading the canoe upstream.
- 1966 They were travelling against the latter end of the flood by the old-time methods of pole, line and "frogging"--that is, wading upstream and lugging the canoe by hand up the riffles.
- 1952 For a whole day long, I poled, lined and "frogged" the outfit up the river, shoving the canoe and load over a huge cottonwood . . . portaging the outfit up a sandbar in the middle of the stream at a point where dangerous driftpiles lined both banks. Luckily it was warm, for "frogging," in Finlay River parlance, means wading the canoe upstream.