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Backtrail

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small path or trail that is not used regularly.

    "The path of renunciation has many sideroads. It is all the more tragic that the radiant Christina Light becomes so benighted in defeat as to pursue moral backtrails out of a bored self-abandon."

  2. 2
    The path over which one has already traveled.

    "They waited there for some five minutes when, suddenly, on the backtrail, perhaps a half mile or more behind them, there were three flashes, sudden and bright, one after the other, brilliant in the cold, pure air."

Verb
  1. 1
    To backtrack along a trail.

    "If they didn't, they would then have to backtrail to try to pick it up"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From back + trail.

Etymology 2

From back + trail.

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