trail

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  1. transitive verb To allow to drag or stream behind, as along the ground: The dog ran off, trailing its leash.
  2. transitive verb To drag (the body, for example) wearily or heavily.
  3. transitive verb To follow the traces or scent of, as in hunting; track.
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  1. Middle English trailen, probably from Old French trailler, to hunt without a foreknown course, from Vulgar Latin *trāgulāre, to make a deer double back and forth, perhaps alteration (influenced by Latin trāgula, dragnet) of Latin trahere, to pull, draw.

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  1. Early modern English also traile, trayle; from Middle English trail, traile, trayle, the train of a dress, a sled, from Old French traail. a reel, prob. also the train of a dress, and a drag or sled; cf. Spanish traílla, a drag for leveling ground, a leash (from F.?), =Portuguese tralha, a drag-net (cf. Provencal tralh, traces, track); Middle Latin trahale, a reel, prob. also the train of a dress, and a drag or sled; cf. Latin tragula, a sled, traha, a sled, Middle Latin traga, a sled, a harrow; from Latin trahere, draw, drag: see tract. Cf. train, v. Hence trail, v. Cf. trail. In some senses the noun is from the verb.
  2. Early modern English also traile, trayle; from Middle English trailen, traylen, from Old French trailler, wind or reel (yarn), also trail game. The uses of the verb are mostly developedin English from the noun.
  3. from Middle English traile, from Old French (and F.) treille, a trellis, a latticed frame, from Latin trichila, also in inscriptions tricla, triclea, triclia, an arbor, bower. Hence ult. trellis.
  4. from trail, n.
  5. Abbr. of entrail, as orig. accented on the final syllable: see entrail.
 

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