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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/8/2016 7:30 PM, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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Il giorno 08 giu 2016, alle ore 10:52, Philip Barnes <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:phil@trigpoint.me.uk"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:phil@trigpoint.me.uk">phil@trigpoint.me.uk</a></a>>
ha scritto:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Please can you explain what trail blaze
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<div>this is what the dictionary says:</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"A
mark made on a tree by cutting the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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This is the true definition. These days it would be little used
owing to the attitude of damaging the tree. <br>
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<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,</span></span></div>
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This is misconstruing, making black = white. Not uncommon with
English (or OSM)!<br>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span
class="punctuation" style="box-sizing: border-box; border:
none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 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>
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<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>
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Here there is confusion of <br>
a thing ; a trail blaze : a mark on a tree<br>
an activity ; blazing a trail : the first marking out of a route. <br>
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<div><i>these are for the word blaze, this is trail:</i></div>
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<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>
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<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);"></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>
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<div><i>cheers,</i></div>
<div><i>Martin </i></div>
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For me:<br>
A trail blaze is a particular kind of route marker. I would use
route marker ... we don't distinguish between different kinds of
route markers? <br>
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