trailbreak

English

Verb

trailbreak (third-person singular simple present trailbreaks, present participle trailbreaking, simple past and past participle trailbroke)

1. To establish a trail for the first time.
   • 1985, Lake Mead National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan, volume 2, United States National Park Service:

     The reduction in lake accesses would encourage offroad drivers to trailbreak their own roads, and the rate of soil damage would increase from its present level of 30 to 40 acres per year.

   • 1999, Reuel Denney, Feast of Strangers: Selected Prose and Poetry of Reuel Denney:

     Blake, Yeats, and Graves have pioneered this path in modern times and W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin trailbreaks it now.

Related terms

• trailbreaking
• trailbroke
• trailbroken