DCHP-2
line up DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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draw or haul a canoe upstream.
See also: line ((v.)) (def. 2)
- 1912 No one has ever descended it alive, but there is a tradition that a party of Iroquois Indians in the "company's" employ once lined a boat up.
- 1953 The hardy voyageurs who paddled or lined the heavily-laden canoes up the streams and carried their loads over the numerous portages were nearly all Canadiens, but no Canadien trader was tolerated.
- 1912 No one has ever descended it alive, but there is a tradition that a party of Iroquois Indians in the "company's" employ once lined a boat up.