<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>sent from a phone</div><div><br>Il giorno 08 giu 2016, alle ore 10:52, Philip Barnes <<a href="mailto:phil@trigpoint.me.uk">phil@trigpoint.me.uk</a>> ha scritto:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">Please can you explain what trail blaze means?</blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>this is what the dictionary says:</div><div><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/blaze?q=trail+blaze#blaze-2__8">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/blaze?q=trail+blaze#blaze-2__8</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"A mark made on a tree by cutting the <a class="w translation" href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bark#bark__2" title="Meaning of bark" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.4s ease, background-color 0.4s ease; transition: color 0.4s ease, background-color 0.4s ease;">bark</a> so as to mark a route<span class="punctuation" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">."</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="punctuation" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="punctuation" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="punctuation" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">looking at the images I had come to the impression that it was used also for painted markings and small plates, also the examples they give seem to indicate that cutting the bark of a tree is not the only way to do it:</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="punctuation" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></span></span></div><div><ul class="sentence_dictionary" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none;"><li class="sentence" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px; list-style: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this game, a runner or group of runners blazed a trail and marked it by leaving paper markers, or anything else suitable, along the route.</span></li><li class="sentence" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px; list-style: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers.</span></li></ul><div><i><br></i></div></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>these are for the word blaze, this is trail:</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><div class="msDict sense" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="senseInnerWrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="iteration" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; left: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3</span></span><span class="definition" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A beaten path through the countryside:</span><span class="exampleGroup exGrBreak" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block;"><em class="example" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">country parks with nature trails</em></span><span class="exampleGroup exGrBreak" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block;"><em class="example" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">easy waymarked trails for the casual walker</em></span><div class="moreInformation" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div></div></div><div class="msDict subsense" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 1.2em 0px 1.2em 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="senseInnerWrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a id="trail__8" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; -webkit-transition: color 0.4s ease, background-color 0.4s ease; transition: color 0.4s ease, background-color 0.4s ease;"></a></span></font><span class="iteration" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; left: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: top; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3.1</span></span><span class="definition" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A route followed for a particular purpose:</span><span class="exampleGroup exGrBreak" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block;"><em class="example" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the hotel is well off the tourist trail</em></span><div><em class="example" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></em></div></div></div></div><div><i>cheers,</i></div><div><i>Martin </i></div></body></html>