Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A path or track made by cows.
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Examples
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Daylight could not persuade himself to keep to the travelled roads that day, and another cut across country to Glen Ellen brought him upon a canon that so blocked his way that he was glad to follow a friendly cow-path.
Chapter VIII 2010
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Then the woods and brush got so thick, and me not finding any more trail, we followed the cow-path down to a big creek and crawled through the fence which showed where the Home land stopped.
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Then they followed the cow-path through more woods and thickets and scattered glades, and dropped down the hillside to where the farm-house, poised on the lip of the big canon, came into view only when they were right upon it.
Chapter XXIV 2010
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An hour later Lute and Chris turned aside from the road and dipped along a cow-path down the high bank to water the horses, before going into camp.
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A cow-path, more trees and thickets, and he dropped down a hillside to the southeast exposure.
Chapter VIII 2010
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The trail became a cow-path, the cow-path became a wood-road, which later joined with a hay-road; and they rode down through the low-rolling, tawny California hills to where a set of bars let out on the county road which ran along the bottom of the valley.
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The wagon-road became a wood-road, the wood-road became a cow-path, and the cow-path dwindled away and ceased among the upland pastures.
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(Soundbite of music) HERMES: The thing I like best about Brad Paisley, though, is his songwriting wit, which feels true to country tradition, while generally sidestepping cow-path cliches.
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It was evident that the skipper was as good a guide on land as he was a pilot at sea, for he led his little party at a steady gait by a winding cow-path through the thick undergrowth.
Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power Wyn Roosevelt
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He left the road and, dismounting, guided his wheel between projecting roots and stumps, down through a winding cow-path which led to a lick below.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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