gee string

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of G-string.
2. The right hand or off side rein on a team of horses, mules, bullocks etc
   • 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, - 1877 March 29, “Taking a Spin”, in The Daily Leader, Cheyenne, Wyo., page 1:
   • 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. - 1904 September 9, H. W. McManus, “In the West”, in The Black Hills...
   • 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. - 1936 September 10, Berthe K. Mellett, “This Horse Brought God to Me”, in The...
3. Line or rope connecting dog-team to sled
   • The gee string (rope by which dog team is attached to front of sled) is then unsnapped - November, 1909, Jack Lee, “A Hunter's Story of the Klondike”, in The Outdoor Life, Denver, Co., page 474:
   • From this is a rope running back to the sled, which, passing, as it must, between the driver's legs, necessitates the acquiring of a peculiar gait, for with each turn the dogs make — as the trail curves from side to...
4. Chin strap of a hat
   • There are a few men that wear their pistols exposed for the same reason that some wear diamond breast pins, or a cowboy hat with a gee-string hanging down the back of his neck. - 1885 July 23, The St. Johns Herald, St...
   • "Gee" strings are now worn on hat bands by the U dudes of the camp. - 1890 June 19, Jake, “From the Reservation”, in The Sturgis Advertiser, Sturgis, Dakota, page 4:
   • Monte yanks us out o' Benton, strings his six across the flat,/Heads 'em down the trail for Billings, sets the gee-string on his hat, - 1940, Johnny Ritch, HorseFeathers, page 14: