gee string

Example Sentences

• "a ten-in-hand bull team came down South A street .... The off bull on the "gee" string bowed his glossy neck and champed his bit impatiently,"
• "I will say a "gee string" is a long rein used on government wagon trains for the most part. The driver by a single jerk guides the horses or mules."
• "Sometimes the nucleus of the cloud would be a five-horse team, driven single file by the device known as a gee string by two or more men."
• "To get them to obey a command, you used the jerk-line, and you'd holler "Gee" or "Haw," different syllables so they wouldn't get mixed up. Gee was to the right and Haw was to the left. If you wanted to go Gee, you jerked on the line that had the Gee string, fastened on a small strap to the collar, and it would throw their heads up, and they'd turn that way. And Haw, you just pulled on it easy."
• "Most drivers use two lines to drive a team of horses, and those lines are known as the "gee" and the "haw" strings. Jack drove with one hand using only the right or "gee" string."
• "The gee string (rope by which dog team is attached to front of sled) is then unsnapped"