Add to ORKGround v. . .it was found requisite to cut a path of a hundred yards to pass over the point which the sledges could not round for want of sufficient ice being attached to it. 10 _h_. 30' we now rounded a bay leaving several islands on our left, the travelling pretty good, except in some places where the ice was very narrow,Withd .[We could consider this Buchan's British usage, his idiolectal vocabulary. But the sense is interesting: 'to [-]travel[-] haul sledges [-]along the[-] on the frozen ice along the [-]edge[-] shore of a [-]fresh[-] pond or lake.' B.]OED a b cites not ...