Crossword-Solution: TRAIL 5 letters, 244 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Trail	v. t.	To hunt by the track; to track.
Trail	v. t.	To draw or drag, as along the ground.
Trail	v. t.	To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
Trail	v. t.	To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
Trail	v. t.	To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
Trail	v. i.	To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
Trail	v. i.	To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
Trail	n.	A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
Trail	n.	A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
Trail	n.	Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
Trail	n.	Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
Trail	n.	Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.
Trail	n.	A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.
Trail	n.	The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
Trail	n.	That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
Trail	n.	The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TRAIL	anagram	ALTRI, LITRA, TRIAL

We have 244 clues for the answer “TRAIL”

Clue	Answers
"Long ___," Green Mountain feature.	1 answer
...And You Will Know Us by the ___ of Dead	1 answer
Path left behind in the woods	1 answer
Ancestor of the turnpike.	1 answer
Appalachian or Oregon	1 answer
Appalachian, for one	1 answer
Are behind	1 answer
Are losing	1 answer
BC industrial town	1 answer
BRITISH hiking magazine	1 answer
Backpacker's path	1 answer
Be down in competition	1 answer
Be in second place	1 answer
Be losing; track	1 answer
Beaten part through the countryside	1 answer
Beaten path through the countryside	1 answer
Biker's path	1 answer
Blazed path.	1 answer
Bloodhound's path	1 answer
Breadcrumbs, in a children's story	1 answer
Bush path	1 answer
Camper's path.	1 answer
Chisholm or Santa Fe	1 answer
Chisholm was one	1 answer
Chisholm, e.g.	1 answer
Chisholm, for one	1 answer
Chisolm or Appalachian	1 answer
Color-coded path	1 answer
Cowboy route	1 answer
Crumbs, in "Hansel and Gretel"	1 answer
Do gumshoe work	1 answer
Do relatively poorly	1 answer
Drag along the ground	1 answer
Dusty's ___	1 answer
Favorite path for a camper.	1 answer
Follow as if drawn along.	1 answer
Fox's "The ___ of the Lonesome Pine"	1 answer
Grofé's "On the ___"	1 answer
Guy Lombardo's "It's a Lonely __"	1 answer
Have a lower score than	1 answer
Have fewer points than	1 answer
Hiker or biker's spot	1 answer
Hiking course	1 answer
Hiking map line	1 answer
Ho Chi Minh is one	1 answer
It can be lonesome	1 answer
It may be marked	1 answer
It may get hot for a detective	1 answer
John Wayne's "The Oregon ___"	1 answer
Join the also-rans	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTEEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TRAIL (5)

Which will win? On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the war-path, which is not visible to inexperienced eyes, come the redskins, every one of them with his eyes peeled.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Fiercely the red sun descending Burned his way along the heavens, Set the sky on fire behind him, As war-parties, when retreating, Burn the prairies on their war-trail; And the moon, the Night-sun, eastward, Suddenly starting from his ambush, Followed fast those bloody footprints, Followed in that fiery war-trail, With its glare upon his features.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

From that spot there was another trail, heavier than the first, where she must have dragged herself back to Emil’s body.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

This he carried up the ladder, and sticking his rod through the clog at one end, allowed the other end of the chain to trail upon the ground.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Show us the trail, and I’ll attend thee too, That, if thou hast the maidens hereabouts, Thou mayest thyself discover them to me; But if thy guards outstrip us with their spoil, We may draw rein; for others speed, from whom They will not ’scape to thank the gods at home.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with TRAIL (3)

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that? Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you're homeless and depressed But home is where the heart is So your real home's in your chest Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got villains they must face They're not as cool as mine But folks you know it's fine to know your place Everyone's a hero in their own way In their own not-that-heroic way So I thank my g…

Joss Whedon Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: The Book

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

George Alexiou

The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually.

Colleen Houck

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, KC Star, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 311 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).