Track-

stem of TRACK v.², in comb. (after Du. trek- ‘draw-, drag-, tow-,’ similarly used in trek-koord, -lijn, -schuit, etc.), as track-barge, -line, -path, -road, -rope; see also TRACK-BOAT.

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1795. *Track-barge [see TRACK-BOAT].

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1856. Kane, Arctic Expl., I. x. 112. Each man had … his own *track-line.

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1839. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., II. 221/1. A *track-path to be formed upon the slope of the deep cutting at Laggon.

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1828. Webster, *Track-road, a towing-path. Cyc.

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1816. Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, iv. (1818), 143. With the aid of oars, and a *track rope at times, [we] got the boats up.

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1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVII. vii. IV. 589. By oar and track-rope.

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