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Trailing

noun

1.

The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind. Synonym: tracking.

Trail

verb

(past & past part. trailed; pres. part. trailing)

1.

To lag or linger behind. Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back.

2.

Go after with the intent to catch. Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track. "The dog chased the rabbit"

3.

Move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly. Synonym: shack. "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"

4.

Hang down so as to drag along the ground.

5.

Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground. Synonym: train. "She trained her long scarf behind her"

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"Trailing" Quotes from Famous Books

... cadets stood gaping at a huge hole in the middle of the room. The wooden floor was splintered around the edges of the opening and several pieces of the chemical feed-line equipment lay close to the edge, with trailing lines leading down into the hole. They heard a low moan and rushed up to the hole, flashing their lights ...

— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell

... with a party of the men, returned to his farm, to see if there were any appearance of other Indians being about there. On arriving at the spot where the desperate struggle had been, the wounded Indian was not to be seen; but trailing him by the blood which flowed profusely from his side, they found him concealed in the branches of a fallen tree.—He had taken the knife from his body, bound up the wound with the apron, and on their approaching him, accosted them ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... allows no report of them to last: mercy and justice disdain them. Let us not speak of them but look and pass by!' And I, looking, saw a banner which ran circling so swift that it seemed scornful of all rest: and after it there came trailing such a long train of people that I should never have thought death had undone so many. When I had made out one or two of them I saw and recognized the shade of him who, for cowardice, made the great refusal. Forthwith ...

— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery

... the daily tax the city levied on them; past honeymoon cottages where young wives walked with young husbands in the dew, or great houses shut against the morning. Lovers came floating down the stream with masterless rudder and trailing oars. College race-boats shot by with modern Greek choruses in full blast and the frankest criticisms from their scientific crews. Fathers went rowing to and fro with argosies of pretty children, who gave them gay good morrows. Sometimes they met fanciful nutshells ...

— Moods • Louisa May Alcott

... all the trees in Florida are covered with a white moss which hangs from their branches to the ground. At night-time, when the moonlight falls, pearly grey, on the indeterminate crest of the forests, the trees look like an army of phantoms in long, trailing veils. In the daytime a crowd of large, beautiful butterflies, brilliant humming birds, and blue-winged jays and parroquets come and cling to the moss, which then resembles a white tapestry embroidered with ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

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