DCHP-1 Online
rowraddy origin unknown North, Obs. 
n. a shoulder belt attached to a track-rope to increase pulling power.
See also: tracking belt track-rope
- 1850 (1851) Little was there to dread, however; for, independent of the thickness of the ice, each man had for safety his tracking belt, called by them "rowraddy," so fastened to the trackrope that he could not well fall through any hole without first letting himself loose.
- 1853 (1892) Each man had his own shoulder-belt, or "rue-raddy," as we used to call it, and his own track-line, which, for want of horse-hair, was made of manilla rope; it traversed freely by a ring on a loop or bridle, that extended from runner to runner in front of the sledge.
- 1850 (1851) Little was there to dread, however; for, independent of the thickness of the ice, each man had for safety his tracking belt, called by them "rowraddy," so fastened to the trackrope that he could not well fall through any hole without first letting himself loose.