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noun

Tracker n.

One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. "And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near."

(Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tracker" Quotes from Famous Books

... saw Mr. Halfpenny and Mr. Tertius closeted with a gentleman who, in appearance, resembled the popular conception of a country squire and was in reality as keen a tracker-down of wrong-doers as ever trod the pavement of Parliament Street. And before Mr. Halfpenny had said ...

— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher

... for traces of the missing party, offering a substantial reward to the one who should bring him such information as should lead to the recovery of the missing white man; and then, taking a couple of sure-footed mules, set off in company with an Indian tracker to scour the entire neighbourhood, in the hope of obtaining some clue to the whereabouts of the missing party from some of the people by whom that particular part of the country was sparsely inhabited. And in ...

— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood

... up now, millions of them, clear and brilliant; and it was quite evident that Thor had set his mind on an "all-night hike," a kuppatipsk pimootao as a Cree tracker would have called it. Just how it would have ended for Muskwa is a matter of conjecture had not the spirits of thunder and rain and lightning put their heads together to give ...

— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood

... "I'm counted a good tracker," he muttered. "I'm as good as Walter Butler or Tim Murphy, and my friend, the Weasel, now with Morgan's riflemen, is no keener forest-runner than am I. Oh, I do not mean to brag, or say I can match my cunning against such a human bloodhound as ...

— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers

... shrine, and when he raised his head from the seven obeisances that are the due of the idol, behold! it glowed with such a lustre as only it wears after answering recent prayer. No native of those parts mistakes the tone of the idol, they know its varying shades as a tracker knows blood; the moon was streaming in through the open door and ...

— Tales of Three Hemispheres • Lord Dunsany

... leave the fence and retreat into the field, where he was lost to sight. The neighbour reported Fisher's return, and, as Fisher could nowhere be found, made a deposition before magistrates. A native tracker was taken to the fence where the pseudo Fisher sat, discovered 'white man's blood' on it, detected 'white man's fat' on the scum of a pool hard by, and, finally, found 'white man's body' buried in a brake. The overseer was tried, condemned, ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang