Trailed

ppl. a. [f. TRAIL v.¹ + -ED¹.]

  1.  Drawn behind, dragged along on a surface, etc. (see the verb); Mil. carried at the trail, as a pike or rifle; in quot. 1797, made by trailing something.

1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xlii. 169. After them followed forty other Chariots,… full … of … Arms, and trayled colours.

1797.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVI. 11/2. In different parts of the course of this trailed track, small quantities of meal … should be laid.

1847.  Infantry Man. (1854), 40 b. Trailed arms must never be used in field movements.

1865.  Pall Mall G., 13 May, 4. No amount of brushing could make their trailed dresses look quite clean again.

  † 2.  Decorated with, or constituting, a trailing pattern or ornament. Obs.

1490.  Acta Dom. Concil. (1839), 79. Ane goun of cramasy velvott, upon velvott droppit with gold, and lynit with trailyeit tweldore.

1552.  Huloet, Traylled or purfled, segmentatus.

1878.  Nesbitt, Catal. Glass Vessels S. Kens. Mus., 119. Pale green glass, with trailed ornament on the under surface.