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Trailer   /trˈeɪlər/   Listen
noun
Trailer  n.  One who, or that which, trails.



Trailer  n.  
1.
A wheeled vehicle without a motor, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle in front of it; specifically:
(a)
Such a vehicle used on street railroads. Called also trail car.
(b)
The large wheeled wagon or van pulled by a tractor in a tractor-trailer combination.
(c)
A vehicle equipped as a mobile dwelling unit, pulled by an automobile or other mtor vehicle, and used as a dwelling when parked; also called a mobile home.
(d)
A wheeled motorless open wagon designed to carry a heavy object, such as a boat trailer.
2.
(Movies) A short blank segment of movie film attached to the end; used for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
3.
(Movies) A short film consisting primarily of one or more short portions of a film, used in promotions or advertisements shortly before initial release of a film.
4.
A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
trailer park. An area equipped to accommodate trailers (2), often with outlets supplying electrical power and water. Called also trailer camp, trailer court.






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"Trailer" Quotes from Famous Books



... of nearly an hour's travel he pulled up, threw down his bridle reins, and studied the ground carefully. He had cut Indian sign. What he saw would have escaped the notice of a tenderfoot, and if it had been pointed out to him none but an expert trailer would have understood its significance. Yet certain facts were printed here on the desert for this boy as plainly as if they had been stenciled on a guide-post. He knew that within forty-eight hours a band of about twenty Mescalero bucks had returned to camp this way from an antelope hunt and ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... we paused I saw coming forward the stooping figure of an Indian trailer, half naked, beleggined, moccasined, following our fresh tracks at a trot. I covered him with the little silver bead, minded to end his quest. But before I could estimate his errand, or prepare to receive him, closely in case he proved an enemy, ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough

... season's, still growing, not tall enough to afford cover for an animal with paws as large as these prints. There were two clumps of brush. It could have holed up in either, waiting to attack any trailer—but why? It had not been wounded, nor frightened by their party, there was no reason for it to set an ambush on its ...
— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

... notes what affects his crops and his earnings, and little else. Common people, St. Pierre says, observe without reasoning, and the learned reason without observing. If one could apply to the observation of nature the sense and skill of the South American rastreador, or trailer, how much he would track home! This man's eye, according to the accounts of travelers, is keener than a hound's scent. A fugitive can no more elude him than he can elude fate. His perceptions are said to be so keen that the displacement of a leaf or pebble, or ...
— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... line, the reel! Bring, oh, bring the osier creel! Bring me flies of fifty kinds, Bring me showers, and clouds, and winds, All things right and tight, All things well and proper, Trailer red and bright, Dark and wily dropper; Casts of midges bring, Made of plover hackle, With a gaudy wing, ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various


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