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Trailing   /trˈeɪlɪŋ/   Listen
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



... the mist was a six-horse team hitched to the most foreign-looking rig one could well imagine. It had something of the look of a preposterous hay-cart, with the ends of blue-painted poles sticking out in front and trailing behind. Following this was a great, white-swathed wheeled box drawn by four horses. It was certainly a curious affair, whatever it was, but neither Calico nor Old Jeff gave it much heed, nor did they waste a glance on the distant ...
— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford
... flag aloft there?' said Wych Hazel. 'Are they marching to victory under its folds? I could not carry mine. It would be trailing, ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... slighter still in a long trailing race coat, passed through the paddock gate to the stand enclosure, Mike Gaynor spoke to ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... rock chimney in the low living room. I had never heard that canister mentioned by Mother Spurlock and I don't know how I knew that out of it came the emergency funds for many a crisis in the Settlement. Then last I picked a blush rose from the monthly bloomer trailing up and over the window and laid it on the empty, worn old Bible on the wide arm of the rocker beside a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. Then I hesitated. I had been so sure of finding Mother Spurlock at home and ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
... fast as his copper-toed feet could carry him. It was quite a long lane, and a very pleasant one in summer. There was a row of hazel-nut bushes, always green and sweet, on one side, and a stone-wall on the other, with the broad leaves and tiny blossoms of a grape-vine trailing over it. The lane opened into a wide field which had an apple-orchard at one end of it, and sloped down over quite a little hill into a piece of marshy ground, where ferns and white violets, anemones, and sweet-flag grew in abundance. In the ...
— Gypsy Breynton • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


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