trailing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRA'ILING, participle present tense Hunting by the track; drawing on the ground; trading down; laying flat; bringing to a lower position; drawing out in length. Since men of foot whose broad-set backs their trailing hair did hide.
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