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Word Meanings - EXORBITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To go out of the track; to deviate. Bentley.

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  • TRACKLAYER
    Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
  • TRACKWALKER
    A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
  • TRACKMAN
    One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
  • TRACK-ROAD
    A towing path.
  • TRACKAGE
    The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
  • TRACK
    The entire lower surface of the foot;-said of birds, ect. 4. A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden. 5. Course; way; as, the track of a comet. 6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, ect. (more info)
  • TRACKER
    In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling. (more info) 1. 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
  • TRACKWAY
    Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.
  • TRACKSCOUT
    See TRACKSCHUYT
  • TRACKLESS
    Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert. To climb the trackless mountain all unseen. Byron. -- Track"less*ly, adv.-Track"less*ness, n.
  • TRACKMASTER; ROADMASTER
    One who has charge of the track; --called also roadmaster.
  • DEVIATE
    To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope. Syn. -- To swerve; stray; wander;
  • TRICKTRACK
    An old game resembling backgammon.
  • HATRACK
    A hatstand; hattree.
  • SIDETRACK
    1. To transfer to a siding from a main line of track. 2. Hence, fig., to divert or reduce to a position or condition that is relatively secondary or subordinate in activity, importance, effectiveness, or the like; to switch off; to turn aside,

 

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