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SPOOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spoor mean?
• SPOOR (noun)
The noun SPOOR has 1 sense:
1. the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game
Familiarity information: SPOOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Context example:
the hounds followed the fox's spoor
Hypernyms ("spoor" is a kind of...):
trail (a track or mark left by something that has passed)
Context examples
We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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