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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Track

Trăck, n.

noun

[O. Fr. trac, track of horses, mules, trace of animals, D. treck, trek, a drawing, trecken, trekken, to draw, M. H. Ger. trechen, pret. trach.]

Sense 1. A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track of a ship, a wake; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or sleigh. “The bright track of his fiery car.” Shak.

Sense 2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint. “Far from track of men.” Milton.

Sense 3. A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden.

Sense 4. Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

Sense 5. A tract or area, as of land. [Obs.]

Sense 6. (Railways.) The permanent way.

Track-master (Railways), one who has charge of the track of a railway;—called also road-master.

Trăck, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. TRACKED (trăkt); p. pr. & vb. n. TRACKING.] 1. To follow when guided by a trace, or by the footsteps, or marks of the feet; as, to track a deer in the snow. Even with such auxiliaries it was found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses. Macaulay. 2. (Naut.) To draw, as a vessel, by a line reaching from her to the shore; to tow.