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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

... "I'm counted a good tracker," he muttered. "I'm as good as Walter Butler or Tim Murphy, and my friend, the Weasel, now with Morgan's riflemen, is no keener forest-runner than am I. Oh, I do not mean to brag, or say I can match my cunning against such a human bloodhound as ...

— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers

... shrine, and when he raised his head from the seven obeisances that are the due of the idol, behold! it glowed with such a lustre as only it wears after answering recent prayer. No native of those parts mistakes the tone of the idol, they know its varying shades as a tracker knows blood; the moon was streaming in through the open door and ...

— Tales of Three Hemispheres • Lord Dunsany

... leave the fence and retreat into the field, where he was lost to sight. The neighbour reported Fisher's return, and, as Fisher could nowhere be found, made a deposition before magistrates. A native tracker was taken to the fence where the pseudo Fisher sat, discovered 'white man's blood' on it, detected 'white man's fat' on the scum of a pool hard by, and, finally, found 'white man's body' buried in a brake. The overseer was tried, condemned, ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

Words linked to "Tracker" : hunter, huntsman, track