Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A route formed merely by the treading of herds: used in contradistinction to cattle-way, a road formed by man for the use of his cattle.
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Examples
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The lane widened, and in a minute he came to the footpath she had told him of, a mere cattle-track which plunged between the bushes.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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The lane widened, and in a minute he came to the footpath she had told him of, a mere cattle-track which plunged between the bushes.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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The lane widened, and in a minute he came to the footpath she had told him of, a mere cattle-track which plunged between the bushes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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After scouring round a little to find the road, we at length hit on a cattle-track which seemed to go in the right direction.
Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson
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The smile did not leave Travers 'lips as he wound up his reel and stole swiftly along a cattle-track up from the river, but a sudden light gleamed in his eyes and his muscles hardened with excited tension.
The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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There was nothing you could call a road between the villages, only a rocky cattle-track that seemed to take the longest possible way between two points; and nobody seemed to own it, or to be there to challenge our right of way.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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Suddenly they struck upon a path that was little more than a cattle-track, and instantly became mingled with other hoof-marks, older and going both ways.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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We were now upon a sort of green cattle-track which crossed the hills towards Torosay, and we kept changing sides upon that like dancers in a reel.
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The two men nodded, and riding down the bank, crossed the creek and quickly disappeared in the scrub on the other side; then Gerrard's party turned towards the coast, Trouton leading the way with the packhorses along a well-defined cattle-track.
Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884
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When we went into the Wisconsin woods there was not a single wheel-track or cattle-track.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876
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