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  • noun a trail for horses.

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  • noun a trail for horses

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Examples

  • Weaponless, desperate, stinging and aching from his superficial wounds and bruises, he had circled the forest slopes along deer-paths, crossed two canyons, and begun to descend the horse-trail he found in the third canyon.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • A large horse-trail loading into one of the _canadas_ of the mountains on our left was discovered by the scouts, and a party was dispatched to trace it.

    What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

  • Weaponless, desperate, stinging and aching from his superficial wounds and bruises, he had circled the forest slopes along deer-paths, crossed two canyons, and begun to descend the horse-trail he found in the third canyon.

    Chapter 36 1917

  • Some were saturated with petrol and set on fire, others were exploded with hand grenades, but the most imaginative method was to drive the car up to that place, two or three miles from Peć, where the road to Andrievica turned into a horse-trail on the side of the precipice.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • O'Shaughnessy was the daring engineer who conquered the jungle and the gorges, ran the ditch and made the horse-trail.

    Chapter 8 1913

  • Where the ditch plunges through the mountain, it climbs over; and where the ditch leaps a gorge on a flume, the horse-trail takes advantage of the ditch and crosses on top of the flume.

    Chapter 8 1913

  • There are no carriage roads through the ditch country, and before the ditch was built, or bored, rather, there was no horse-trail.

    Chapter 8 1913

  • Where the ditch plunges through the mountain, it climbs over; and where the ditch leaps a gorge on a flume, the horse-trail takes advantage of the ditch and crosses on top of the flume.

    Chapter 8 1911

  • O'Shaughnessy was the daring engineer who conquered the jungle and the gorges, ran the ditch and made the horse-trail.

    Chapter 8 1911

  • There are no carriage roads through the ditch country, and before the ditch was built, or bored, rather, there was no horse-trail.

    Chapter 8 1911

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