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Webster 1913 Edition
Trailing
Trail′ing
,Adj.
& vb.
Noun.
Trail
. Trailing arbutus
. (Bot.)
See under
– Arbutus
. Trailing spring
, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur.
Weale.
– Trailing wheel
, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage.
Webster 1828 Edition
Trailing
TRA'ILING
,ppr.
Since men of foot whose broad-set backs their trailing hair did hide.