trailingn.

/ˈtreɪlɪŋ/

Etymology: < trail v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of trail v.¹ in various senses.

a. Dragging along, hanging down as a robe so as to drag, etc.: see the verb.

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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > hanging down > trailing

trailing13..

daggling1650

13.. Min. Poems fr. Vernon MS. xlviii. 194 Wher is þat gomen and þat song, Þat trayling & þat comelich ȝong, Þo haukes and þe houndes?

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 242 Þe pekok..may nouȝte fleighe heighe; Fro þe traillyng of his taille ouertaken is he sone.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iii. App. 103 In that [shade] all Strawberries delight; and by the trailing of the Plant is well obtain'd.

1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iii. 37 The trailing is now done by horses only.

1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 579 The trailing of their chains [i.e. of the portcullises in heraldic devices] is as varied in design as that of the stalks and leaves of the roses.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. viii. 265 The trailings and climbings of deep purple convolvulus.

b. The following of a trail, hunting by the trail.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > following track or trail

tracing1523

investigation1623

vestigation1658

trail1669

trailing1742

spooring1850

pugging1866

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. v. 101 The best Hound that ever pursued a Hare;..good at trailing .

1902 St. James's Gaz. 31 May 20/1 One can understand the absorbing interest of trailing... Every animal leaves a trail. The expert even reads the story of a snake's trail.

†c. Billiards. (See quot. 1775) Obsolete.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play

raking1674

coup1744

Whitechapel play1755

bricole1775

trailing1775

star1839

cannoning1841

safety1844

spotting1849

billiard-sharping1865

stringing1873

safety play1896

potting1909

1775 ‘Connoisseur’ Ann. Gaming viii. 105 What now gives the peculiar advantage to the mace over the cue, is what has been artfully introduced by professed players, under the name of trailing, which is following the ball with the mace to such a convenient distance from the other ball as to make it an easy hazard.

d. A form of bowling played on Scottish greens, the object being to trail or carry the jack into a semicircle drawn beyond two bowls placed three feet apart.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > forms of

long bowl1497

byles1530

trule1568

portbowls1585

long bullets1679

boccia1827

bocce1828

trailing1902

boule1924

bias bowls1939

pétanque1955

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 329/2 In trailing, two bowls are laid on the turf..and a jack is then deposited equidistant from each bowl... A semicircle is then drawn behind the bowls with a radius of nine feet from the jack.

1923 J. A. Manson Bowling 84 Trailing is the section of the Points game which is most worthy of attention.

e. Ceramics. A method of decorating pottery by applying slip or glaze through a nozzle or spout. (See also quots. 1960, 1968.)

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > other types of decoration

smudging1846

rice grain1876

photoceramic1892

pastillage1901

fingertipping1935

trailing1940

lithophane1947

1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. vi. 145 Glazes are applied by dipping, double dipping..dripping, splashing and trailing.

1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 543/2 Trailing, a technique of making broad incised lines in pottery.

1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts xix. 241 Glazes are applied in a liquid state, either by immersion or by brush-work; this is called trailing.

1977 Harrison Mayer Ltd. Catal. 18/2 Slip decoration: trailing, feathering. Slip can be applied by all the usual painting, pouring, trailing and dipping methods.

f. The advance broadcasting of excerpts of films, programmes, etc., as a form of publicity. Cf. trail v.¹ 4.

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society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > broadcasting specific type of programme or item

spot advertising1904

outside broadcasting1925

school broadcasting1926

newscasting1928

sportcasting1934

sportscasting1941

revival1955

pray-TV1957

trailing1961

radiovision1963

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > [noun] > advance screening of excerpts

trailing1961

1961 Listener 17 Aug. 254/3 The trailing of future programmes by announcement or sampling..now seems to be overdone—especially those repeated alluring snippets of coming films which could equally well be false starts of the next programme.

1978 Broadcast 20 Nov. 19/3 Intensive trailing on radio and TV.

2. concrete. A trailing branch or shoot of a plant, a ‘runner’; a trailing part or appendage.

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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > runner, creeping, or trailing shoot

runner1652

trailing1727

propagulum1807

flagellum1861

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > trailingly

trailera1652

trailing1727

streamer1810

trail1844

swab1862

tangle1864

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Garden Strawberries..begin to shoot forth in January... You may cut off their Trailings in March.

1884 Amer. Meteorol. Jrnl. 1 8 A heavy, low flying..storm cloud with ragged trailings.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

trailingadj.

Etymology: < trail v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtrailing.

a. That trails (almost always in intransitive sense); dragging or dragged behind, drifting along, hanging from something, etc.: see trail v.¹

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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > trailingly

trailinga1400

swooping1581

dragglinga1599

training1645

streeling1841

traily1902

a1400 in Rel. Ant. 2 15 Ne be þi winpil nevere so jelu ne so stroutende, Ne þi faire tail so long ne so trailende.

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxvi. 84 A traylyng gowne of twelue yerdes wide solempnly dagged with huge bagge sleues.

1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. Pref. 70 [She] made a towell of her trayling haires.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 56 The trailing cloud [of tobacco-smoke] Streams far behind him, scenting all the air.

1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 245 Walking with a..somewhat trailing and stumbling step.

b. Of a plant, or a branch, stem, or shoot of a plant: see trail v.¹ 6. Also in the names of plants with a trailing habit; trailing arbutus: = New England mayflower n. at New England n. 2c; also figurative.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping

running1548

spreading1560

flat1578

ramping1578

wandering1590

upcreeping1611

gadding1638

rambling1653

obsequious1657

reptant1657

scansive1657

scansory1657

procumbent1668

repent1669

scandenta1682

supine1686

scrambling1688

creeping1697

sarmentous1721

reptile1727

sarmentose1760

prostrate1773

trailing1785

decumbent1789

travelling1822

vagrant1827

sarmentaceous1830

humifuse1854

sarmentiferous1858

amphibryous1866

humistratous1880

climbing1882

clambering1883

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American

woodbine1624

Virginia vine1629

staff-tree1633

Virginia creeper?1703

climbing vine1760

mayflower1778

pepper vine1783

arbutus1785

trailing arbutus1785

pipe vine1803

Ampelopsis1805

ground-laurel1814

waxwork1818

ivory plum1828

fever twig1830

yerba buena1847

mountain pink1850

New England mayflower1855

creeping snowberry1856

Virginian creeper1856

May blossom1871

sand verbena1880

staff-vine1884

1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 468 Stalks, round and most commonly upright, not square nor trayling.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 161 The right sort hath long Stalks and trailing Branches.

1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 413 Cuscuta... Trailing Cockspur... Borders of brooks and ditches.

1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 42 Trailing Arbutus..grows naturally upon northern hills, or mountains.

1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 91 Salix prostrata. Trailing willow.

1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 93 Juniferus prostrata. Trailing juniper.

1855 Harvard Mag. 1 232 Most admired of our spring flowers is the Ground Laurel, Epigæa repens, commonly called Trailing Arbutus, or New England Mayflower.

1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 462 We have on the lake shore a beautiful trailing evergreen—the Trailing Juniper.

?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. vi Branches long, very trailing.., slender, purplish; prickles.

1878 R. T. Cooke Happy Dodd 347 A profusion of trailing pine had been stored away in the barn cellar, before frost came.

1899 M. Going Field, Forest, & Wayside Flowers 251 The lycopodiums..under the name of..‘club-moss’, or ‘trailing-evergreen’, are familiar to almost every one who has summered in New England.

1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime i. 18 The male, Barny, was calling me a trailing arbutus..and The Subject was talking about horsewhips.

1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 633 Among the many woodland trails are no less than 600 varieties of flowering plants—including the trailing yew, unique to this island.

2. In specific technical applications.

a. trailing wheel, a wheel to which the motive force is not directly applied (opposed to driving-wheel), as one of the hinder wheels of a locomotive, or the rear wheel of a front-driving bicycle. Also applied to parts connected with this, as trailing axle, trailing spring; so trailing-weight, that part of the weight of a locomotive which rests upon the trailing-wheels.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > of specific type or position

cartwheelc1386

truckle1459

trundle1564

clog-wheel1575

trindle1594

coach-wheel1647

roulette1659

roller1763

horizontal wheel1794

castora1800

castor-wheel1805

artillery wheel1834

training wheel1848

trailing wheel1850

spider-wheel1868

front wheel1878

trailer1884

trendle1887

wire wheel1907

square wheels1924

jockey-wheel1952

1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 471/2 Trailing springs, the springs fixed on the axle-boxes of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine.

1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 471/2 Trailing wheels, the wheels placed behind the driving wheels of a locomotive engine.

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Trailing-axle, an axle behind the driving-axle in British locomotives.

1904 Daily Chron. 2 Feb. 6/6 Two pairs of coupled driving-wheels; then a single pair of trailing-wheels placed behind the fire-box.

b. trailing points, on a railway, points directed away from a coming train (opposed to facing points). trailing horns in a dynamo-electric machine: see quot. 1902.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > points > types of

spring point1757

catch point1873

stub-switch1885

trap-point1885

trailing points1889

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > dynamo > [noun] > leading horns

trailing horns1889

1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 79 Trailing points..at a distance of 220 yards from the cabin.

1902 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. Following Horns, in dynamo-electric machines, the projecting ends of the pole pieces towards which the outer uncovered perimeter of the armature turns... The leading horns are those away from which the armature rotates... Synonym—Trailing Horns.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. at Switch Trailing-point switch, in railroading,..contrasted with facing-point switch.

c. trailing vortex n. see quot. 1969.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > swirling or eddying > a vortical motion > a vortex > specific type

trailing vortex1929

1929 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 123 440 The flow behind the screw is the same as if the screw surface formed by the trailing vortices was rigid.

1949 O. G. Sutton Sci. of Flight iv. 112 The trailing vortices actually spring from two wing-tip vortices which, in flight, form just inside the wing tips.

1969 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iv. 15 Trailing vortex, a vortex extending down~stream from the surface of a body.

Derivatives

ˈtrailingly adv.

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the world > time > duration > [adverb] > in a protracted fashion

trailingly1589

protractedly1624

extendedly1660

prolongedly1832

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adverb] > in trailing manner

trailingly1831

1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 65 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Then is their sound heard heauier, and trailingly they hum.

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 476 One of them..hangs trailingly along the mossy greensward.

1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets (1863) 59 Green vine-branches trailingly inclined.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	trailing
释义	trailingn. /ˈtreɪlɪŋ/ Etymology: < trail v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of trail v.¹ in various senses. a. Dragging along, hanging down as a robe so as to drag, etc.: see the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > hanging down > trailing trailing13.. daggling1650 13.. Min. Poems fr. Vernon MS. xlviii. 194 Wher is þat gomen and þat song, Þat trayling & þat comelich ȝong, Þo haukes and þe houndes? 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 242 Þe pekok..may nouȝte fleighe heighe; Fro þe traillyng of his taille ouertaken is he sone. 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iii. App. 103 In that [shade] all Strawberries delight; and by the trailing of the Plant is well obtain'd. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iii. 37 The trailing is now done by horses only. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 579 The trailing of their chains [i.e. of the portcullises in heraldic devices] is as varied in design as that of the stalks and leaves of the roses. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. viii. 265 The trailings and climbings of deep purple convolvulus. b. The following of a trail, hunting by the trail. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > following track or trail tracing1523 investigation1623 vestigation1658 trail1669 trailing1742 spooring1850 pugging1866 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. v. 101 The best Hound that ever pursued a Hare;..good at trailing . View more context for this quotation 1902 St. James's Gaz. 31 May 20/1 One can understand the absorbing interest of trailing... Every animal leaves a trail. The expert even reads the story of a snake's trail. †c. Billiards. (See quot. 1775) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play raking1674 coup1744 Whitechapel play1755 bricole1775 trailing1775 star1839 cannoning1841 safety1844 spotting1849 billiard-sharping1865 stringing1873 safety play1896 potting1909 1775 ‘Connoisseur’ Ann. Gaming viii. 105 What now gives the peculiar advantage to the mace over the cue, is what has been artfully introduced by professed players, under the name of trailing, which is following the ball with the mace to such a convenient distance from the other ball as to make it an easy hazard. d. A form of bowling played on Scottish greens, the object being to trail or carry the jack into a semicircle drawn beyond two bowls placed three feet apart. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > forms of long bowl1497 byles1530 trule1568 portbowls1585 long bullets1679 boccia1827 bocce1828 trailing1902 boule1924 bias bowls1939 pétanque1955 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 329/2 In trailing, two bowls are laid on the turf..and a jack is then deposited equidistant from each bowl... A semicircle is then drawn behind the bowls with a radius of nine feet from the jack. 1923 J. A. Manson Bowling 84 Trailing is the section of the Points game which is most worthy of attention. e. Ceramics. A method of decorating pottery by applying slip or glaze through a nozzle or spout. (See also quots. 1960, 1968.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > other types of decoration smudging1846 rice grain1876 photoceramic1892 pastillage1901 fingertipping1935 trailing1940 lithophane1947 1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. vi. 145 Glazes are applied by dipping, double dipping..dripping, splashing and trailing. 1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 543/2 Trailing, a technique of making broad incised lines in pottery. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts xix. 241 Glazes are applied in a liquid state, either by immersion or by brush-work; this is called trailing. 1977 Harrison Mayer Ltd. Catal. 18/2 Slip decoration: trailing, feathering. Slip can be applied by all the usual painting, pouring, trailing and dipping methods. f. The advance broadcasting of excerpts of films, programmes, etc., as a form of publicity. Cf. trail v.¹ 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > broadcasting specific type of programme or item spot advertising1904 outside broadcasting1925 school broadcasting1926 newscasting1928 sportcasting1934 sportscasting1941 revival1955 pray-TV1957 trailing1961 radiovision1963 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > [noun] > advance screening of excerpts trailing1961 1961 Listener 17 Aug. 254/3 The trailing of future programmes by announcement or sampling..now seems to be overdone—especially those repeated alluring snippets of coming films which could equally well be false starts of the next programme. 1978 Broadcast 20 Nov. 19/3 Intensive trailing on radio and TV. 2. concrete. A trailing branch or shoot of a plant, a ‘runner’; a trailing part or appendage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > runner, creeping, or trailing shoot runner1652 trailing1727 propagulum1807 flagellum1861 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > trailingly trailera1652 trailing1727 streamer1810 trail1844 swab1862 tangle1864 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Garden Strawberries..begin to shoot forth in January... You may cut off their Trailings in March. 1884 Amer. Meteorol. Jrnl. 1 8 A heavy, low flying..storm cloud with ragged trailings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). trailingadj. Etymology: < trail v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtrailing. 1. a. That trails (almost always in intransitive sense); dragging or dragged behind, drifting along, hanging from something, etc.: see trail v.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > trailingly trailinga1400 swooping1581 dragglinga1599 training1645 streeling1841 traily1902 a1400 in Rel. Ant. 2 15 Ne be þi winpil nevere so jelu ne so stroutende, Ne þi faire tail so long ne so trailende. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxvi. 84 A traylyng gowne of twelue yerdes wide solempnly dagged with huge bagge sleues. 1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. Pref. 70 [She] made a towell of her trayling haires. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 56 The trailing cloud [of tobacco-smoke] Streams far behind him, scenting all the air. 1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 245 Walking with a..somewhat trailing and stumbling step. b. Of a plant, or a branch, stem, or shoot of a plant: see trail v.¹ 6. Also in the names of plants with a trailing habit; trailing arbutus: = New England mayflower n. at New England n. 2c; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping running1548 spreading1560 flat1578 ramping1578 wandering1590 upcreeping1611 gadding1638 rambling1653 obsequious1657 reptant1657 scansive1657 scansory1657 procumbent1668 repent1669 scandenta1682 supine1686 scrambling1688 creeping1697 sarmentous1721 reptile1727 sarmentose1760 prostrate1773 trailing1785 decumbent1789 travelling1822 vagrant1827 sarmentaceous1830 humifuse1854 sarmentiferous1858 amphibryous1866 humistratous1880 climbing1882 clambering1883 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American woodbine1624 Virginia vine1629 staff-tree1633 Virginia creeper?1703 climbing vine1760 mayflower1778 pepper vine1783 arbutus1785 trailing arbutus1785 pipe vine1803 Ampelopsis1805 ground-laurel1814 waxwork1818 ivory plum1828 fever twig1830 yerba buena1847 mountain pink1850 New England mayflower1855 creeping snowberry1856 Virginian creeper1856 May blossom1871 sand verbena1880 staff-vine1884 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 468 Stalks, round and most commonly upright, not square nor trayling. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 161 The right sort hath long Stalks and trailing Branches. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 413 Cuscuta... Trailing Cockspur... Borders of brooks and ditches. 1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 42 Trailing Arbutus..grows naturally upon northern hills, or mountains. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 91 Salix prostrata. Trailing willow. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 93 Juniferus prostrata. Trailing juniper. 1855 Harvard Mag. 1 232 Most admired of our spring flowers is the Ground Laurel, Epigæa repens, commonly called Trailing Arbutus, or New England Mayflower. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 462 We have on the lake shore a beautiful trailing evergreen—the Trailing Juniper. ?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. vi Branches long, very trailing.., slender, purplish; prickles. 1878 R. T. Cooke Happy Dodd 347 A profusion of trailing pine had been stored away in the barn cellar, before frost came. 1899 M. Going Field, Forest, & Wayside Flowers 251 The lycopodiums..under the name of..‘club-moss’, or ‘trailing-evergreen’, are familiar to almost every one who has summered in New England. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime i. 18 The male, Barny, was calling me a trailing arbutus..and The Subject was talking about horsewhips. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 633 Among the many woodland trails are no less than 600 varieties of flowering plants—including the trailing yew, unique to this island. 2. In specific technical applications. a. trailing wheel, a wheel to which the motive force is not directly applied (opposed to driving-wheel), as one of the hinder wheels of a locomotive, or the rear wheel of a front-driving bicycle. Also applied to parts connected with this, as trailing axle, trailing spring; so trailing-weight, that part of the weight of a locomotive which rests upon the trailing-wheels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > of specific type or position cartwheelc1386 truckle1459 trundle1564 clog-wheel1575 trindle1594 coach-wheel1647 roulette1659 roller1763 horizontal wheel1794 castora1800 castor-wheel1805 artillery wheel1834 training wheel1848 trailing wheel1850 spider-wheel1868 front wheel1878 trailer1884 trendle1887 wire wheel1907 square wheels1924 jockey-wheel1952 1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 471/2 Trailing springs, the springs fixed on the axle-boxes of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine. 1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 471/2 Trailing wheels, the wheels placed behind the driving wheels of a locomotive engine. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Trailing-axle, an axle behind the driving-axle in British locomotives. 1904 Daily Chron. 2 Feb. 6/6 Two pairs of coupled driving-wheels; then a single pair of trailing-wheels placed behind the fire-box. b. trailing points, on a railway, points directed away from a coming train (opposed to facing points). trailing horns in a dynamo-electric machine: see quot. 1902. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > points > types of spring point1757 catch point1873 stub-switch1885 trap-point1885 trailing points1889 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > dynamo > [noun] > leading horns trailing horns1889 1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 79 Trailing points..at a distance of 220 yards from the cabin. 1902 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. Following Horns, in dynamo-electric machines, the projecting ends of the pole pieces towards which the outer uncovered perimeter of the armature turns... The leading horns are those away from which the armature rotates... Synonym—Trailing Horns. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. at Switch Trailing-point switch, in railroading,..contrasted with facing-point switch. c. trailing vortex n. see quot. 1969. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > swirling or eddying > a vortical motion > a vortex > specific type trailing vortex1929 1929 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 123 440 The flow behind the screw is the same as if the screw surface formed by the trailing vortices was rigid. 1949 O. G. Sutton Sci. of Flight iv. 112 The trailing vortices actually spring from two wing-tip vortices which, in flight, form just inside the wing tips. 1969 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iv. 15 Trailing vortex, a vortex extending down~stream from the surface of a body. Derivatives ˈtrailingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adverb] > in a protracted fashion trailingly1589 protractedly1624 extendedly1660 prolongedly1832 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adverb] > in trailing manner trailingly1831 1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 65 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Then is their sound heard heauier, and trailingly they hum. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 476 One of them..hangs trailingly along the mossy greensward. 1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets (1863) 59 Green vine-branches trailingly inclined. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.13..adj.a1400
随便看	to gird together to gird up to gird up the loins to girdle about, in, round to girn at to girt against to girth on, up to give a (occasionally thing) the fingers to give a a person a miss to give a baby the breast to give a backie to give a bad name to give a ball to give a ball air to give a beating to give a bell to give a big hand to give a blank cheque to to give a bloody nose to give a blow to give a body swerve to give a broadside to give a chance to give a chill to give a clean chit