Definition of Trail

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Definition of Trail

Trail

To hunt by the track; to track.

To draw or drag, as along the ground.

To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.

To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.

To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.

To be drawn out in length; to follow after.

To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.

A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.

A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.

Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.

Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.

Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.

A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.

The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.

That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.

The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.

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Trail Quotations

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'Amour

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham Bell

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton

I could never resist the call of the trail.
Buffalo Bill

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
Galen Rowell

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
David Lynch

I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
Jerry Stiller

Trail Translations

trail in Dutch is spoor, wagenspoor, karrespoor
trail in Latin is persequor, sequor sequi secutus
trail in Portuguese is fuga

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