Word Direct Answers

What does "track" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Zoöl.) The entire lower surface of the foot;-said of birds, ect.
  2. 3.A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden.
  3. 4.Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
  4. 5.A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, ect.
  5. 6.(Raolroad) The permanent way; the rails.
  6. 7.Etym: [Perhaps a mistake for tract.] A tract or area, as of land. [Obs.] "Small tracks of ground." Fuller. Track scale, a railway scale. See under Railway.
  7. 8.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. Macaulay.
  8. 9.(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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