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Trailer

noun

Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind. Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke.

An advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future. Synonyms: preview, prevue.

A large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor.

A wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy. Synonym: house trailer.

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"Trailer" Quotes from Famous Books

... railroad town of Hays City was filled with so called "Indian scouts," whose common boast was of having slain scores of redskins, but the real scout—that is, a 'guide and trailer knowing the habits of the Indians—was very scarce, and it was hard to find anybody familiar with the country south of the Arkansas, where the campaign was to be made. Still, about Hays City and the various ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 6 • P. H. Sheridan

... from its bright blue gentian-like flowers. By many this species is considered synonymous with L. fruticosum. They are, however, very dissimilar. Our subject is an evergreen and stunted trailer; L. fruticosum is a deciduous trailer and very vigorous; both, however, are perfectly hardy. The most striking characteristics of the Prostrate Gromwell are its fine dark blue flowers and procumbent habit. It is a native of France, and only within the last sixty ...

— Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood

... A trailer from the detective agency? It was too soon for that. If it were arranged that every member of the Board be trailed, still it could not have been arranged ...

— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye

... dogs and sledge. He was a Sarcee, one of the last of an almost extinct tribe, so old that his hair was of a shaggy white, and he was so thin that he looked like a famine-stricken Hindu. "He has lived so long that no one knows his age," Father Roland had said, "and he is the best trailer between Hudson's Bay and the Peace." His name was Upso-Gee (the Snow Fox), and the Missioner had bargained with him for a hundred dollars to take David from White Porcupine House to Fond du Lac, three hundred miles farther northwest. He cracked his long caribou-gut ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood

... muttered the trailer, pulling his cap down to his ears and quickening his pace. "If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was Hallock again—or Hallock's shadder follerin' him at ...

— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

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