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Spoor  v. i.  To follow a spoor or trail. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Spoor" Quotes from Famous Books



... the doctor; "but I'm more disposed to keep a quiet lookout, and rest. We're quite safe here, and provisions are more plentiful than I thought for. Griggs has found the spoor of some big buck and his young does. They have straggled into the ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn

... beast would stop with high-held nose, sniffing searchingly. At other times a quick, brief incursion into the branches above delayed it momentarily in its steady journey toward the east. To its sensitive nostrils came the subtle unseen spoor of many a tender four-footed creature, bringing the slaver of hunger to the ...
— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... revealing a landscape blind with snow. Such search as could be made told them nothing. The oxen had gone, and their spoor was obliterated by the fresh-fallen flakes. The White Man called a council of his Kaffir servants. "What was to be done?" ...
— Nada the Lily • H. Rider Haggard

... things. There is one I hope it is not," was the Chief Ranger's somewhat evasive reply. "I will hunt a labbla—there was fresh spoor at the stream." He set off along their back trail to return a half hour later, the body of his kill slung across one shoulder. He was skinning it ...
— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North

... neighbourhood of a drinking-place is trodden down with tracks, "describe a circle a little distance From it, to ascertain if it be much frequented. This is the manner in which spoor should at all times be sought for." (Cumming's 'Life in South Africa.') To know if a burrow be tenanted, go to work on the same principle; but, if the ground be hard, sprinkle sand over it, in order to show the tracks ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton



Words linked to "Spoor" :   trail



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