backtrail noun 2verb 1forms 3 noun2 •The path over which one has already traveled.When it was light enough we climbed a mesa, winding around the far side before coming up to watch our backtrail. — 2013 •A small path or trail that is not used regularly.The path of renunciation has many sideroads. It is all the more tragic that the radiant Christina Light becomes so benighted in defeat as to pursue moral backtrails out of a bored self-abandon. — 1975 verb1 •To backtrack along a trail.If they didn't, they would then have to backtrail to try to pick it up — 1990 formsbacktrailed · backtrailing · backtrails
