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main line

• 1 North, Hist. See 1941 quote.

  See also: tracking line  

  • 1827  (1912)  [We] dry the main line as well as we can first by the sun and afterwards by the fire.
  • 1892  (1948)  Six men drew the boat along, a stout leather band passing around the chest and being attached to the main line. The latter was about two hundred feet long and the boat was drawn along the stream at quite a distance from the shore.
  • 1941  Main Line. The large Manilla rope by which York Boats were taken upstream.

• 2 See 1953 quote at line (def. 7).

  See also: line ((n.)) (def. 7)  

  • 1921  Now they are looking forward to the two hundred miles of snowshoeing to the main line and let their wives and families know they are well

• 3 Lumbering See 1942 quote. [See picture at high-lead system.] Also spelled mainline.

  See also: main  

  • 1939  The main line from the donkey (skidder) is reeved through a great block at the head of the spar tree. . . .
  • 1942  (1946)  _MAINLINE . . . the heavy cable which hauls the logs from the woods to the landing.
  • 1966  Whether the mainline was to be pulled in, or the haulback to go out . . . depended on the correct number of whistles.