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noun

Tracker n.

One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. "And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near."

(Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tracker" Quotes from Famous Books

... him to me, old fellow. You have done your complete share in disposing of the man-tracker. I ...

— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton

... the cleverest officers in the Indian police; he was a few years over thirty, a dark-complexioned man of medium height, very agile and powerful, and was known to the Salt Range natives as Koj (tracker) Burton Sahib, owing to his smartness in following ...

— Adventures in Many Lands • Various

... trail, and even he, Koskoosh, slow of sight and an unversed tracker, could have followed it blind, it was so wide. Hot were they on the heels of the chase, reading the grim tragedy, fresh-written, at every step. Now they came to where the moose had made a stand. Thrice the length of a grown man's body, in every direction, had ...

— Children of the Frost • Jack London

... As Finn flung the furry corpse aside, Desdemona appeared in the mouth of the cave with most of the stolen rabbit between her jaws. It was noteworthy that she gave no heed at all to the fox. Her business as a tracker had been with her mate's stolen kill. In the absence of Finn, Reynard would have paid no other penalty for his theft than the loss of the rabbit. As it was, the incident cost him his life; and he was a master ...

— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson

... of the words, but not a muscle of his face moved. For Stafford King the hatred with which he regarded the law lost its personal character. This man was something more than a thief-taker and a tracker of criminals. Pinto chose to regard him as the close friend of Maisie White, and as ...

— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

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