trail
/tɹeɪl/ noun B1- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky. · The trail has gone cold.· condensation trail
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- A route or circuit generally. · Politicians are on the campaign trail in preparation for this year's election.
- A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
Plural trails
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We heard it, but we could not prove that it was running upon this man’s trail.
A draghound will follow aniseed from here to John o’Groat’s, and our friend, Armstrong, would have to drive through the Cam before he would shake Pompey off his trail.
Half a mile farther this opened into another broad road, and the trail turned hard to the right in the direction of the town, which we had just quitted.
“I don’t know much about the tariff and things of that kind,” said he, “but it seems to me we’ve got a bit off the trail so far as that note is concerned.”
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