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, track-line, track-path, track-road, track-rope; see also track-boat.
| 1856 Kane Arctic Expl. I. x. 112 Each man had..his own *track-line. |
| 1839 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 221/1 A *track-path to be formed upon the slope of the deep cutting at Laggon. |
| 1828 Webster, *Track-road, a towing-path. Cyc. |
| 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. 1864 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. vii. IV. 589 By oar and track-rope. |