back-trail

[ bak-treyl ]

verb (used without object)

1. to backtrack.

Word History and Origins

Origin of back-trail¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

We're goin' to hit the back-trail inside an' hour.

From Project Gutenberg

A half mile from the encampment, Brent struck into the scattered timber, "He may watch the back-trail," he flung back over his shoulder, "and we don't want to walk into a trap."

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But Joe Pete merely shrugged, and started the dogs, whereupon Brent faced about and started over the back-trail.

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At daylight they camped upon the apex of a high ridge that commanded a six or seven mile sweep of the back-trail, and all three noted with relief that the stiff wind had filled their trail with the shifting snow.

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Both he and Joe Pete were asleep the instant they hit the blankets, and for a long time Snowdrift sat with the moss-bag hugged close, and her eyes fixed upon the long sweep of back-trail.

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