leadline

You pull with the leadline and by the halter and they have no choice but to move! and you tend not to get dragged that way.

The Bull Calf James Gurney 2010

“The leadline must always be in hand, when passing through this channel,” Champlain wrote.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

“The leadline must always be in hand, when passing through this channel,” Champlain wrote.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

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Recognising promptly what the trouble is, the energetic Captain grabs up a broom, ties a light cord belonging to the leadline to it, and holding the broom by the end of its handle, swings it round his head and hurls it at the canoe.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Then he cut up an old wool undershirt and wrapped the pieces around miscellaneous junk -- old nuts and bolts, chunks of leadline, anything to make up half a dozen packages of good throwing heft.

Cat and Mouse Ralph Williams

When or why or how the custom arose nobody was old enough to remember; but a master mariner would as soon have thought of sailing without log or leadline as of putting in and out of Ponteglos without tasting Master Simon's ale -- "calling for orders," as they put it.

Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

It was a difficult task in the night, because the leadline had to be passed from the quarter-deck to the cathead outside the shrouds; the rails and deck were slippery.

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

Captain grabs up a broom, ties a light cord belonging to the leadline to it, and holding the broom by the end of its handle, swings it round his head and hurls it at the canoe.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

One of her crew threw a leadline towards a seaman on the shore.

Battles with the Sea 1859