Definitions for trails

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trails trail

Spelling: [treyl]

IPA: /treɪl/

Trails is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in trails (ailrst).

Definitions for trails

noun

1. a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
2. the track, scent, or the like, left by an animal, person, or thing, especially as followed by a hunter, hound, or other pursuer.
3. something that is trailed or that trails behind, as the train of a skirt or robe.
4. a stream of dust, smoke, light, people, vehicles, etc., behind something moving.
5. Artillery. the part of a gun carriage that rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered.
6. Architecture. a running vine, leaf, or tendril ornament, as in a Gothic molding.

Idioms

1. trail arms, Military. to hold a rifle in the right hand at an oblique angle, with the muzzle forward and the butt a few inches off the ground. a command to trail arms.

verb (used with object)

1. to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
2. to bring or have floating after itself or oneself:
3. to follow the track, trail, or scent of; track.
4. to follow along behind (another), as in a race.
5. to mark out, as a track.
6. to tread down or make a path through (grass or the like).
7. to draw out, as speech; protract.
8. Ceramics. to pour (slip) on a biscuit so as to produce a pattern.

verb (used without object)

1. to be drawn or dragged along the ground or some other surface, as when hanging from something moving:
2. to hang down loosely from something.
3. to stream from or float after something moving, as dust, smoke, and sparks do.
4. to follow as if drawn along.
5. to fish by trailing a line from a moving boat; troll.
6. to go slowly, lazily, or wearily along.
7. to pass or extend in a straggling line.
8. to change gradually or wander from a course, so as to become weak, ineffectual, etc. (usually followed by off or away):
9. to arrive or be last:
10. to be losing in a contest:
11. to creep or crawl, as a serpent.
12. to follow a track or scent, as of game.
13. (of a plant) to extend itself in growth along the ground rather than taking root or clinging by tendrils, etc.

Origin of trails

1275-1325; Middle English trailen to draw or drag in the rear; compare Old English træglian to tear off; cognate with Middle Dutch traghelen to drag; akin to Latvian dragât to tear off, drag

Examples for trails

Instead, that trail seems to lead to another Spinal Solutions contractor, Ryan Zavilenski.

One seemed particularly promising, by a trail with a big pile of natural brush to furnish a screen.

Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.

At least, they would go with caution down his trail after that first check.

The band has not only blazed a trail for free-media artists, but they also had a blast in the process.

To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest trail solo.

You're a proud man; you've never quit a trail yet before the end of it.

After all, it was not a simple thing to put Bill Dozier off the trail.

When he got on my trail he knew that I was just a scared kid who thought he'd killed a man.

But, speakin' personal, this trail looks more and more interestin' to me.