On 6/8/2016 7:30 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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Il giorno 08 giu 2016, alle ore 10:52, Philip Barnes
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
Please can you explain what trail blaze means?
this is what the dictionary says:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/blaze?q=trail+blaze#blaze-2__8
"A mark made on a tree by cutting the bark
<http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bark#bark__2> so
as to mark a route."
This is the true definition. These days it would be little used owing to
the attitude of damaging the tree.
looking at the images I had come to the impression that it was used
also for painted markings and small plates,
This is misconstruing, making black = white. Not uncommon with English
(or OSM)!
also the examples they give seem to indicate that cutting the bark of
a tree is not the only way to do it:
* 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.
* 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.
Here there is confusion of
a thing ; a trail blaze : a mark on a tree
an activity ; blazing a trail : the first marking out of a route.
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/these are for the word blaze, this is trail:/
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3A beaten path through the countryside:/country parks with nature
trails//easy waymarked trails for the casual walker/
3.1A route followed for a particular purpose:/the hotel is well off
the tourist trail/
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/cheers,/
/Martin /
For me:
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?
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