trailsman

[ treylz-muhn ]

noun

, plural trails·men.

1. a person who follows a trail.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trailsman¹

First recorded in 1855–60; trail + 's ¹ + -man

Example Sentences

Creek, swish! hour after hour sounded forth the yielding snowshoes as Keith Steadman, hardy northman and trailsman, strode rapidly forward.

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With the dexterity of the born trailsman, Talpers wormed his way along the stream when it seemed as if further progress would be impossible.

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Every man was then a trailsman.

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He saw the farmers arise, and railways begin, and little villages dot the skyline, and here and there an elevator, when a box car was looked at by a trailsman as a small boy gapes at a circus parade.

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Glen knew that he was the finest trailsman in the north, and she felt more satisfied as she watched him, rifle in hand, disappear amid the trees.

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