Substantiv
The right hand or off side rein on a team of horses, mules, bullocks etc
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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.
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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.
Line or rope connecting dog-team to sled
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The gee string (rope by which dog team is attached to front of sled) is then unsnapped
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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 side — the driver has to keep his feet moving from this side to that of the 'gee' string, as it is called, or he will be thrown down.
Chin strap of a hat
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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.
"Gee" strings are now worn on hat bands by the U dudes of the camp.
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,