DCHP-1 Online
track-rope North, Obs. 
n. a heavy rope used for dragging or hauling sleds, boats, etc.
See also: track-line (def. 1)
- 1850 . . . each man had for safety his tracking belt . . . so fastened to the track-rope that he could not well fall through any hole without first letting himself loose.
- 1854 (1892) . . . a large sled with broad runners . . . was taken down, scraped, polished, lashed, and fitted with trackropes and rue-raddies--the lines arranged to draw as near as possible in a line with the centre of gravity.
- 1850 . . . each man had for safety his tracking belt . . . so fastened to the track-rope that he could not well fall through any hole without first letting himself loose.