/treɪl/
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Translation
A path through the countryside, or the line of marks that someone or something leaves behind.
Word origin
From Old French trailler, to drag along, from Latin tragula, a net that is dragged.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- trailler
Examples
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A trail is a narrow path through wild country.
.
Here the trail is the smell and marks left behind.
footprints.
A trail of things is a line of them left behind.
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