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Word entry · 5 letters

spoor

Best crossword clue

"Hunter's trail sign"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /spʊə/Part of speech nounSorted ooprsStarts with SEnds with R2 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2P3O4O5R

Definitions

  1. the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game

Word origin

Early 19th century, from Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor (“track”).

Used in a sentence

  • We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor. If it were indeed a bird - and what animal could leave such a mark? - its foot was so much larger than an ostrich's that its height upon the same scale must be enormous.
  • Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.
  • Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Hunter's trail sign5 letters
02Animal trail5 letters

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