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Spoor

[SPOOR]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Dutch, 19th century

1.

The track or scent of an animal.

Examples of Spoor in a sentence

"We caught the spoor of the moose and followed it into the deep woods."

"The only spoor the hunters found was a patch of faint tracks on the hard ground."

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