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track-line 
1 n. a heavy rope used for dragging or hauling sleds, boats, etc.
See also: track-rope
- 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.
2 n. a strong line or rope used in tracking (def. 1).
See also: tracking (def. 1) tracking line
- 1938 Gone are the trackers, coiled are the track-lines.
- 1947 The left-hand sketch shows two 40-foot York boats being hauled up-river by track-lines.
- 1963 I picked up the trackline--a hundred feet of light line, one end fastened to the ring in the bow, the other to the rear seat. We shoved the canoe out on it and I started to steer it with the line down the riffle.
- 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.