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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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Etymology of 'Track'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Track" Quotes from Famous Books

... Captain Martin and the patriotic men of Marblehead, who, on the outbreak of the Rebellion, were the first to leave home, the first to arrive in Boston, and subsequently, under my command, the first to leave the yard of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, to repair and relay the track in the march through Maryland to relieve the beleaguered ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 • Various

... is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i' the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths ...

— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... had reached the hotel a letter was brought to her. In it Kitty bade her—and the Dean—farewell, and asked that no effort should be made to track her. "I am going to friends—where I shall be safe and at peace. Thank you both with all my heart. Let no one think ...

— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... the very track of the barbarians as they had spread out of the Silva Anderida, through a neck of which, fifteen miles ahead, the road passed. An acrid smell of smoke hung heavy in the twilight; when he reached the station of Noviomagus he found it all in flames, with ...

— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor

... you walk right through and you turn around and swing the girl that finds you, And you come right back by the same old track and turn ...

— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt

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