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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trailing \Trail"ing\,
a. & vb. n. from {Trail}.
{Trailing arbutus}. (Bot.) See under {Arbutus}.
{Trailing spring}, a spring fixed in the axle box of the
trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as
to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. --Weale.
{Trailing wheel}, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not
a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a
carriage.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trail \Trail\ (tr[=a]l), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Trailed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Trailing}.] [OE. trailen, OF. trailler to trail a
deer, or hunt him upon a cold scent, also, to hunt or pursue
him with a limehound, F. trailler to trail a fishing line;
probably from a derivative of L. trahere to draw; cf. L.
traha a drag, sledge, tragula a kind of drag net, a small
sledge, Sp. trailla a leash, an instrument for leveling the
ground, D. treilen to draw with a rope, to tow, treil a rope
for drawing a boat. See {Trace}, verb (used with an object)]
1.
(a) To hunt by the track; to track.
(b) to follow behind.
(c) To pursue. --Halliwell.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
2. To draw or drag, as along the ground.
And hung his head, and trailed his legs along.
--Dryden.
They shall not trail me through their streets
Like a wild beast. --Milton.
Long behind he trails his pompous robe. --Pope.
3. (Mil.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the
ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece
being held by the right hand near the middle.
4. To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay
flat. --Longfellow.
5. To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
[Prov. Eng.]
I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly
termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her
ignorance. --C. Bronte.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trailing
adjective: having the lower score or lagging position in a contest;
"behind by two points"; "the 8th inning found the home
team trailing" [syn: {behind(p)}]
noun: the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or
marks they left behind [syn: {tracking}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "trailing":
bugging, chase, chasing, cloak-and-dagger work, consecutive,
counterespionage, counterintelligence, dogging,
electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, follow, follow-up,
following, heeling, hounding, hue and cry, hunting, intelligence,
intelligence work, military intelligence, observation, prosecution,
pursual, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, searching,
secret police, secret service, seeking, sequel, sequence, series,
shadowing, spying, stakeout, stalking, succeeding, surveillance,
tailing, tracking, tracking down, wiretap, wiretapping
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