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UK
/spˈɔː/
]
[ US /ˈspʊɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈspʊɹ/ ]
NOUN
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the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game
the hounds followed the fox's spoor
How To Use spoor In A Sentence
- But you make me laugh, puttin 'on airs an' pretendin 'to do it for spoort -- "Wimmen ha'n't got no sense o' spoort, "says you, all solemn as owls. Corporal Sam and Other Stories
- The elephant-catching tribe, the Singphos, prepare for a catch in Assam, often tracking spoor on a river bank.
- Tuesday, Spoornet CEO Siyabonga Gama said informal settlements alongside rail lines had "mushroomed" over the past few years. ANC Daily News Briefing
- The gasping clouds of my breath mingled with the fog as I followed the spoor, pushing through denuded branches and the winter skeletons of undergrowth.
- the hounds followed the fox's spoor
- The dewy spoor climbed the steep hillside towards an abandoned weather-station a hundred feet below the cliff. RUSHING TO PARADISE
- During the course of our bushwalk, I am educated on dung and spoor, blossoms, leaves and bark. Same Sun and Moon: My guide through the African bush
- `Only the spoor, sir, we encourage you to grow the mushrooms. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
- He has spotted fresh buffalo spoor followed by a flock of alarmed oxpecker birds taking flight. Same Sun and Moon: My guide through the African bush
- Tariffs for mines would increase from R4. 76 cents to R5 per kilolitre for operational use and for industries like Spoornet the price would increase from R4. 92 cents to R5. 17 cents per kilolitre. ANC Daily News Briefing