drag path

Noun

drag path (plural drag paths)

1. A path or trail on which something was (or can be) dragged or moved.
   • At several spots along the drag path she saw sets of deep claw indentations.1979, H.M. Hoover, The Rains of Eridan, page 105
   • But as we followed the drag path I found a remarkable number of things intact and unmarked by the fire, shed from the wreck as it was towed away.1993, Eighner, Lars, Travels with Lizbeth, page 61
   1. (timber industry) A skid trail or skid road; a narrow, temporary path created or used by forestry machinery (skidders) to drag felled trees or logs from the stump to a central landing area for processing.
      • The specimen was one of a pair in dense bamboo and deciduous scrub jungle bordering a drag-path for logs.1886, Bombay Natural History Society, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, page 288
      • If, for example, the log is held up by any obstruction along the drag path, the elephant merely uses its brute force to overcome its nd often snaps its drag-chain in the effort.1886, Bombay Natural History Society, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, page 593
   2. (forensics) A visible trail, mark, or disturbance on the ground or floor indicating that a person, victim, or heavy object was dragged from one location to another; a critical piece of forensic evidence used to reconstruct movements, locate bodies, or identify the path taken by perpetrators.
      • A dragpath of blood went through the double doorway and the hall, where the attackers must have taken away some wounded of their own.1972, Levin, Meyer, The Settlers, page 812
      • A drag path of blood from the two large pools through high grass ended under the pine tree where her body lay.2004, Levitt, Leonard, Conviction : solving the Moxley murder : a reporter and a detective's twenty-year search for justice, page 1941