to trailer
1
3.8
- verb
- /ˈtreɪlər/
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- He plans to trailer the boat to the lake for fishing this weekend.
- trailered boats
- trailered horses
- trailered back
Examples
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It is not acceptable to just show up for your own races or leave before all boats are trailered.
Blog text (30) -
The vessels in this segment include a wide variety of trailered and moored boats between 12 and 45 feet in length.
Academic text (1993) -
Thus, access to the bay for trailered boats has become less available and more expensive.
Academic text (1990) -
So we trailer out after work to do long rides (depending on how long it stays light), on weekends and whenever we can figure out how to do it.
Blog text (32) -
Tomorrow, Liv will be trailered to a secure location in Muskegon, Michigan, until I can continue the trip on water sometime next week.
Blog text (27) -
He looked for her under chairs and in the trailered boats, then he sat back in the dewy grass and passed out.
Fiction book (1998) -
I sat there that night with my mother and father in a trailered boat, reluctant to go anywhere, hungry for a meal as simple as salted, boiled peanuts with these people who had already gone their separate ways.
Fiction book (1998) -
We need to trailer the horse to the competition site before noon.
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After the event, they will trailer the equipment back to the storage facility.
Synonyms
157
2.1
To carry something in a vehicle or over a long distance
28
2.6
To move goods by road in a large vehicle
8
3.4
To take away large or heavy things using a vehicle
4
3.0
To move something by dragging it with effort
Compounds
- US
46
3.3
A place where people rent spaces for homes on wheels that share water and electricity
- Australian
1
3.4
A trailer with beds and a small kitchen that people take on camping trips
- US
1
4.2
A place where people rent spaces for homes on wheels with water and electricity
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Morphology
Etymology
Trailer as a verb comes from the word trail, which means 'to be pulled' or 'follow behind'. To trailer something is to pull it on a trailer behind a car or truck, so the origin directly gives the modern meaning of moving something by pulling it.