trace-chains

Updated: May 19, 2025

Sometimes the jewelry on a woman's feet will rattle as she walks like the trace-chains on a plow-horse on the way to the barn. This barbaric display of jewelry, it should be said, is not made solely for purposes of show.

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

There was no one there when he reached it, but half-way down the incline he saw the light again, and up the broad, straight gallery came the cry of danger distinctly to his ears. "Hurry! hurry! The breaker's afire! The shaft's a-burnin'! run!" Instinctively Ralph unhitched the mule, dropped the trace-chains, and ran down the long incline of the plane.

Homer Greene - Burnham Breaker