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Definition of Spoor
1. Noun. The trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game. "The hounds followed the fox's spoor"
Definition of Spoor
1. n. The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.
2. v. i. To follow a spoor or trail.
Definition of Spoor
1. Noun. The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To track an animal by following its spoor ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spoor
1. to track [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: track
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoor
Literary usage of Spoor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Proceedings: With Appendices of the Government Commission on by Sir Jacob Dirk Barry, Cape of Good Hope, Jacob Dirk Barry, Commission on Native Laws and Customs (1883)
"When such spoor cannot be traced to any spacific kraal or kraals, but is lost,
or becomes obliterated on any lands, then the responsibility for the value of ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1901)
"Students of the Department of Animal Husbandry of the University of Illinois who
won first honors in judging horses, cattle, sheep and swine, and the spoor ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court by New York (State). Supreme Court, New York (State), Esek Cowen, Supreme Court (1859)
"LORD against spoor. In an action ON certiorari to a Justice's Court. spoor sued
Bullard dollar act, it & Lord, in the Court below under the 50 dollar act. ..."
4. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1877)
"... Mrs. spoor Killed, 13 / 9 a to Major spoor his Wife and Daughter, to Private
Sutherland, in Attempting '••• Escape from the Castle of the Argyle ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1863)
"spoor. was agreed by parol, that he should not be bound to pay the whole, unless
the estate in his hands was sufficient, and that in fact it proved ..."
6. The Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa by William Henry Drummond (1875)
"of blood ceased, and the spoor soon crossed and mingled with others of the same
date, it became very hard to distinguish it. In cases of extreme difficulty ..."
7. Somaliland: Being an Account of Two Expeditions Into the Far Interior by Charles Victor Alexander Peel (1900)
"THE white man can never hope to compete successfully with the black man in
following the spoor of big game. One would imagine that an animal possessing the ..."
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