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back trail

back trail is the alternative form of backtrail.

Meaning of backtrail

Noun

backtrail (plural backtrails)

  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.1975, Dale E. Peterson, The clement vision: poetic realism in Turgenev and James, page 100
  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.2009, John Norman, The King, page 306

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Forms of back trail

pluralback trails

Questions about back trail

What is back trail the alternative form of?
Back trail is the alternative form of backtrail.

Words near back trail in the dictionary

  1. Back to the Future Day
  2. back to the old drawing board
  3. back to the soil
  4. back to the wall
  5. back tooth
  6. back trail
  7. back up
  8. back up the truck
  9. back vowel
  10. back vowels
  11. back wall

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