trace hook

A hook on the end of a singletree or splinter-bar to which the trace is attached. trāçe (1), v. t. & i. [TRACE (1), 8.] A. Transitive: 1. To follow the trace or tracks of; to track. "Tracing the Eske from its source till it joins the sea at Mu el burgh."- Scott : Gray Brother . (Note.) 2. To follow by some mark or marks left by the thing followed; to follow by signs or tokens; to discover by signs or tokens. "The gift, whose office is the giver's praise, To trace him in his word, his works, his ways." Cowper : Table Talk , 751. *3. To follow with exactne . "That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line." Denham: To Sir Richard Fanshaw. 4. To draw out; to delineate with marks. "In this chart I have laid down no land, nor traced out any shore but what I saw myself."-Cook: First Voyage, bk. i., ch. vi. 5. To copy, as a drawing, engraving, writing, ., by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they are visible. 6. To form in writing; to write. "The signature of another plainly appeared to have been traced by a hand shaking with emotion."- Macaulay . Hist. Eng., ch. xiv. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1289.png:[blocks in formation] "The Belvoir Senator and the Brock les by Harbinger traced directly to the Fitzwilliam."- Field , Sept. 4, 1886. trāçe (2), v. t . [A variant of trice (q. v.).] Naut.: To haul and make fast anything as a temporary security. (With up.)