(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
(v. t.) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
(v. i.) To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
(v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
(n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
(n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
(n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
(n.) Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
(n.) Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.
(n.) A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.
(n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
(n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
(n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(4) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(5) The woman Hollande describes as the "love of his life" has been present on the campaign trail over the past few weeks, but always behind him, or on the sidelines.
(6) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
(7) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(8) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(9) Calls to defund the organisation have proliferated among Republicans in Congress and on the 2016 presidential campaign trail .
(10) But while he may remain fairly invisible on the campaign trail for a while longer, his presence is already being felt behind closed doors.
(11) The Tories are in first place, on 34%, while Labour trails in third on 28%.
(12) The trailing edge of the flagellum, which is thickly covered by scales and was assumed until now to lack receptors, contains both mechanosensitive and contact chemoreceptors.
(13) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(14) As was the case against Chelsea's two buses a fortnight ago, Liverpool struggled to find solutions against the visitors' 5-4-1 formation, trailed to Martin Skrtel's fourth own goal in one season, a Premier League record, and could have been further behind when Yoan Gouffran raced through only to be denied by Simon Mignolet.
(15) Debenhams said it also trailed behind its rivals in terms of convenience because it lacked a competitive range of premium delivery options.
(16) In a speech focused on national security, Liam Fox , who is trailing his fellow Tory leadership candidates in terms of support from MPs, hinted that he had doubts that a candidate without significant experience could handle the job.
(17) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
(18) Simon Ingram, editor of hillwalking magazine Trail ( livefortheoutdoors.com)
(19) Do one-day or shorter sections of the route between Les Houches and Argentière, or tackle the Tour du Mont Blanc, a strenuous 250km trail that takes in the most naturally dramatic slices of Switzerland, France and Italy.
(20) Its main rival, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Eurosceptic nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), trailed on 30%.
Unpaved
Definition:
(a.) Not paved; not furnished with a pavement.
(a.) Castrated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(2) Abdel Fattah believes her son will return to the family's flat, down an unpaved back alley in Cairo's Zeitoun district, where his framed portrait sits on top of a bookshelf, when he completes his sentence.
(3) From there they were driven north towards the village of La Macarena, a spine-crunching six-hour drive along unpaved laterite roads, where Farc has a string of training camps, some of them big enough to host 600 rebel fighters.
(4) A navy helicopter pursued the pickup truck in which Treviño was traveling along unpaved back roads towards the city at 3.45am on Monday and forced it to stop, government security spokesman Eduardo Sánchez told reporters.
(5) Walk through the rougher edges of town and you see what they mean: unpaved roads, uncollected rubbish, no running water, patchy electricity.
(6) Tests were made on asphalted, unpaved, and packed-snow road surfaces.
(7) Três Marias 4km from Aivados beach An unpaved road running through fields of wheat and wild flowers brings you to Três Marias, a 10-room B&B, run by Balthasar Trueb (half-Swiss, half-Portguese in case you’re wondering).
(8) With control groups matched for age and similar pre-existing illness, the implication is that unpaved roads resulted in increased morbidity by reducing access.
(9) Increasingly the favoured gun battles, which can be watched from a relatively safe distance by embedded journalists, are being overshadowed by the need to drive around unpaved roads of southern Afghanistan which have proved vulnerable to roadside bombs.
(10) Using a case-control format, children admitted with bacterial meningitis are shown to have traveled farther over unpaved roads to get to a clinic than matched controls seen at the same time.
(11) Amid this sea of shacks, many constructed from corrugated iron haphazardly bolted together, piles of rubbish go uncollected and acrid water runs down unpaved dirt tracks.
(12) Cachora turned out to be little more than a grid of mud-brick houses and unpaved streets that petered out into fields.
(13) "I want to reassure everyone about my state of health after this incident committed by error by an army unit on an unpaved road near Touela," he said.
(14) Roads leading here are unpaved, making the transfer of food and weapons and the evacuation of the wounded difficult.
(15) It’s big business, not nature.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Breakfast at Back of Beyond For our trip we deliberately picked small, slightly off-the-beaten track places to stay, so much so that our driver was unconvinced there was any kind of accommodation along the dusty, unpaved road that led to our next stop, the aptly named Back of Beyond , a cluster of bungalows by an estuary.
(16) Winning tip: The Pelion peninsula, Greece This peninsula on the Aegean is crisscrossed with a network of ancient kalderimi (stone donkey paths) and monopati (unpaved footpaths).
(17) Particles were collected using dichotomous stacked filter units placed on 20 m towers to reduce the influence of dust from unpaved roads.
(18) The 84 wind turbines erected just south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, tower above an arid landscape of grassland and unpaved roads, inhabited mostly by small-scale farmers, who – along with 77% of the country's population – lack access to electricity .
(19) In the present study, a previously undescribed geographic factor--unpaved roads--is shown to be a clinically important barrier to access.
(20) Most of the usually choked routes in and out of Kabul were almost empty, but on one baking, unpaved road in Kapisa province we came across a group of 10 men halfway through their two-hour walk to their nearest polling station in a distant village surrounded by uncleared minefields.