DCHP-1 Online
sled line 
a line used in the trappings of a dog-sled, especially to lash down the load.
- 1896 Every man in the party but myself was more or less severely snow-blind, one or two so badly as to necessitate their holding on to a sledge-line for guidance.
- 1896 (1898) One of them grasped the sled line to show me how to straighten up the load, and tugged and hauled and tugged again without producing the slightest effect.
- 1905 (1910) The skin is made into boots, clothing, and sled lines; the fat used as oil for their stone lamps--the meat as a rule is eaten raw.
- 1896 Every man in the party but myself was more or less severely snow-blind, one or two so badly as to necessitate their holding on to a sledge-line for guidance.