Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tracking"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Track \Track\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tracked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{tracking}.]
To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the
marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in
the snow.
It was often found impossible to track the robbers to
their retreats among the hills and morasses.
--Macaulay.
2. (Naut.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a
line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to
tow.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tracking
n : the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or
marks they left behind [syn: {trailing}]
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