drag-ropes

One cabinet is devoted to R.C.D Royal Carriage Department drawings, which deal with a wide variety of equipment from complete gun carriages to drag-ropes.

Royal Artillery Library - article by John Day M 2009

A crowd of infuriated soldiers, with drag-ropes and everything that wit of man could devise, laboured for hours to get him out, while their comrades, equally infuriated, held anything up to a dozen animals apiece and made strenuous efforts to prevent them from following his deplorable example.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

Colonel Hicks fell out 120 men and put them on to the drag-ropes.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

Two drag-ropes, each twenty-five feet long, of three-inch rope, with ten loops to each, are attached, one to each end of the splinter-bar, by means of which the engines are dragged; and to prevent the loops collapsing on the hand, they are partly lined with sheet-copper.

Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

"Give 'em hell, boys!" we cried to the busy gunners, as they dashed by us, working at the wheels and drag-ropes, but the Naval man spoke first, "Snap -- Bang!" and back the gun jumped in a cloud of smoke; and presently, far away, from the crest of the kopje under suspicion, a cloud of brown arose, and later came the crack of the explosion.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

Men tugged at drag-ropes and strained at the wheels, it seemed for hours.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

As our brigade had succeeded in driving the Turkish cavalry back our guns were not needed in support, so we watered the horses at a well eighty feet deep and had to use reins and drag-ropes and anything else we could find in order to reach the surface of the water with the canvas buckets.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

Our gunners, with no thought of sleep, put their shoulders to wheels and drag-ropes to bring their guns through the mire in support of the infantry, now under the increasing fire of the enemy's artillery.

Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam Clarence Young

After nightfall this brigade and the batteries retired a short distance and took up a position commanding the road, in a deep wadi where the guns had to be man-handled into place, after which the waggons and limbers were let down the sides of the wadi by means of drag-ropes, and the horses scrambled down as best they could.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

The boat was worked by oars, a mast and sail, drag-ropes for towing, and long poles for pushing them through the rapids, while the bow was kept towards the shore by a tow line held by the boat's crew or attached to horses.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger