Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
trace-horse .
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Examples
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They were creeping across a flank of the hill when the off-leader sprang to the left so violently that nothing but the instinctive bracing of his trace-mate held them from going over the grade.
The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908
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As Messala turned in, the bronze lion's head at the end of his axle caught the fore-leg of the Athenian's right-hand trace-mate, flinging the brute over against its yoke-fellow.
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I ate her trace-mate, and was rather close to eating
A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886
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