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cattle trail

/ˌkædl treɪl/
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Other forms: cattle trails

Definitions of cattle trail
  1. noun
    a trail over which cattle were driven to market
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    examples:
    Chisholm Trail
    a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s
    type of:
    trail
    a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
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