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noun

Track n.

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel. "The bright track of his fiery car."

A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint. "Far from track of men."

(Zool.) The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.

A road; a beaten path. "Behold Torquatus the same track pursue."

Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

(Railroad) The permanent way; the rails.

A tract or area, as of land. (Obs.) "Small tracks of ground."

Track scale, a railway scale. See under Railway.

verb

Track v. t. (past & past part. tracked; pres. part. tracking)

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow. "It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses."

(Naut.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Track" Quotes from Famous Books

... argument, and everybody stayed indoors or stepped high through drifts. The direct way to the factory was virtually untrodden, and Ebenezer made a detour through the business street in search of some semblance of a "track." ...

— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale

... including Trinity Church—all the west side of Broadway from Whitehall to Barclay street, or about one-eighth of the city; and on the 7th of August 1778, about 300 buildings on East River were burned. The winter of 1779-80 was very severe; there was a beaten track for sleighs and wagons across the Hudson; the ice in that river being strong enough to bear a horse and man as late as the 17th of March; eighty sleighs, with provisions, and a large body of troops, crossed ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... I have travelled seven thousand miles to visit, and I thank God that I have been so fortunate as to find you. I feared lest you might be dead, or perhaps far away in the centre of Africa where I should never be able to track ...

— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard

... which lived there in perfect harmony. Paul had been so clever as to discover, in this little town of 15,000 souls, numbers of pretty girls, all made to be adored. He always believed himself the discoverer of America, when, in fact, he had done nothing but follow in the track ...

— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy

... about twenty-two miles, and had taken to the railroad track by way of change, when I came upon a freight train, which had stopped on account of some ...

— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody

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