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Track v. t. (past & past part. tracked; pres. part. tracking)

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow. "It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses."

(Naut.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

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Etymology of 'Tracking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tracking" Quotes from Famous Books

... rambling thoughts broke off their aimless tracking to swing one hundred and eighty degrees in midspace and dart ...

— Next Door, Next World • Robert Donald Locke

... to draw many eyes. Indeed, were Baron von Kerber on board, he must have been disagreeably impressed by the fact that in sending the short skipper and the long second mate of the Aphrodite to Marseilles in company he had supplied an unfailing means of tracking their movements. Of course, he was not responsible for the chance that threw them together, but the mere presence of two such men on the same vessel would be remembered quite easily by those who make it their business to ...

— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy

... he had no misgivings and congratulated himself upon his professional cleverness in tracking his ...

— A Royal Prisoner • Pierre Souvestre

... the rebel Nana to Bithoor; but, alas! the noble garrison of Wheeler was not relieved on the advance of Havelock: the Nana, driven to despair, perpetrated the wholesale murder which blackens the page of Indian history with the name of Cawnpore. Havelock resolved on tracking the murderer to his den: Bithoor was attacked, and the Nana beaten. Havelock ordered Neill to bring on all his forces from Allahabad that could possibly be spared, and that officer took the command of Cawnpore, where, as at Allahabad, he soon created order, and subjected to ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... found ourselves really pioneers. No road or transport was alleged to exist. We persevered. Indians and trappers beset us with their projects of tracking and portage by the St. Croix and other rivers, requiring a camp life with strange companions of nearly a month to accomplish the distance of only one hundred and sixty-three miles, equivalent to that of Albany from New York. A military road direct through ...

— Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 • Various

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