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noun

Tracker n.

One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. "And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near."

(Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tracker" Quotes from Famous Books

... hour later saw Mr. Halfpenny and Mr. Tertius closeted with a gentleman who, in appearance, resembled the popular conception of a country squire and was in reality as keen a tracker-down of wrong-doers as ever trod the pavement of Parliament Street. And before Mr. Halfpenny had said ...

— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher

... said Lennox, and the man obeyed, showing the grain they had first noticed lying scattered about, while a little examination further showed the direction in which those who had carried it off had gone, leaving sign, as a tracker would call it, in the shape of a few grains which had fallen from the loads ...

— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn

... to me, old fellow. You have done your complete share in disposing of the man-tracker. ...

— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton

... short ladder leading from my platform to the stage below, but it did not go to the ground. Peering quietly over the scaffolding, I saw my friend the policeman below, still at fault. I blessed my stars that he was no tracker, and therefore had not seen my footmarks leading to the foot of ...

— My Adventures as a Spy • Robert Baden-Powell

... reference to gas and crude oil to close the circuit. Then he remembered: Kellogg had mentioned a man by the name of Burnham who was "on the track of" an important invention for making gas from crude oil. This must be the man, Burnham, the tracker; and poor old Graham must be ...

— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance

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