Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The area beside a trail.

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  • adjective beside a trail

Etymologies

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trail +‎ -side

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Examples

  • Smoking a pipe by the trailside or lounging around the stove, men made rough estimates of the numbers that had perished at his hand.

    THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN 2010

  • Taking a break from sledding trailside when this very large Grouse came out of the woods, circled us and then jumped up onto one of the sleds.

    Reader Shots: Best Nature Photos 2009

  • I was out hiking on Boulder's Ranger Trail near the Green Mountain Lodge today and I noticed some fine black "soot" on the sunny trailside snow banks.

    Rich Wolf: Boulder's Heart-Warming Fleas 2010

  • During a vacation climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, she watched a fellow climber quell altitude sickness by ingesting a plant-based concoction he bought at a trailside pharmacy.

    One Pharma Entrepreneur's Never Ending Quest Helen Coster 2010

  • During a vacation climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, she watched a fellow climber quell altitude sickness by ingesting a plant-based concoction he bought at a trailside pharmacy.

    One Pharma Entrepreneur's Never Ending Quest Helen Coster 2010

  • I was out hiking on Boulder\'s Ranger Trail near the Green Mountain Lodge today and I noticed some fine black \ "soot\" on the sunny trailside snow banks.

    Rich Wolf: Boulder's Heart-Warming Fleas 2010

  • During a vacation climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, she watched a fellow climber quell altitude sickness by ingesting a plant-based concoction he bought at a trailside pharmacy.

    One Pharma Entrepreneur's Never Ending Quest Helen Coster 2010

  • Other than the previosly mentioned horse shitty reasons for using a CamelBak on the trailanother very good reason is to carry tools for trailside repairs.

    Evolving or Devolving? From Comebacks to CamelBaks BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • The disadvantage was that, from time to time, I had to not do exactly what I wanted my character to do, because, if I did, Granther would basically bit the crap out of me and leave me trailside.

    Do virtual worlds liberate us? 2007

  • Her brightest childhood memory was of walking up the river trail for some of Sally Swanger's white bean soup and on the way home having her nightgown — for several years her usual attire, even in the daytime — get caught on a trailside blackthorn briar.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

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