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Trail   /treɪl/   Listen
Trail

noun
1.
A track or mark left by something that has passed.  "A tear left its trail on her cheek"
2.
A path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country.
3.
Evidence pointing to a possible solution.  Synonyms: lead, track.  "The trail led straight to the perpetrator"
verb
(past & past part. trailed; pres. part. trailing)
1.
To lag or linger behind.  Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back.
2.
Go after with the intent to catch.  Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track.  "The dog chased the rabbit"
3.
Move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly.  Synonym: shack.  "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"
4.
Hang down so as to drag along the ground.
5.
Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground.  Synonym: train.  "She trained her long scarf behind her"



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"Trail" Quotes from Famous Books



... galloping over an open trail on a nervous little cow-pony. But it was both a bodily and mental relief for the outdoor girl who had been, for these past weeks, shut into a groove for which ...
— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe
... by Mr. Jackal came lilting along with his tail up. "Ho! ho! That is your game, is it?" said he to himself, when he saw the trail of the Crocodile in the sandy soil. So he stood outside, and said aloud, "Bless my stars! What has happened? I don't half like to go in, for whenever I come home my wife ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
... trail to guide him now, but he did not immediately mind that. He trekked the South Mars Desert and he had weathered the jungles of Io. Tsith hound or no, he had an unerring instinct for direction. He was sure the foothills couldn't be far ...
— One Purple Hope! • Henry Hasse
... these ideas were constantly forcing themselves, as it were, into my mind as I wandered over the changeful face of this singular land, where the fresh print of the moccasin is followed by the tread of the engineer and his attendants, and the light trail of the red man is effaced by the road of iron: hardly have the echoes ceased to repeat through the woods the Indian's hunter-cry before this is followed by the angry rush of the ponderous steam-engine, urged forward! ...
— Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power
... had missed the drift of the girls' discussion. He was considering, privately, whether he had not better send a special messenger on the young men's trail. His assurances to the women left a wide margin for personal doubt as to the prudence of the trip. Aside from the lateness of the start, it was, undoubtedly, an ill-assorted company for the woods. There was a wide margin also for ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote


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