Defn: Same as Guide rope, above.
TRAIN
Train, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained; p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] Etym:
[OF. trahiner, traïner,F. traîner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L.
trahere to draw. See Trail.]
1. To draw along; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton.
2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.] If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. Shak. O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. Shak. This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. Ford.
3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. Milton. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. Dryden.
4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
5. (Hort.)
Defn: To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a
proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young
trees.
He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
Jeffrey.
6. (Mining)
Defn: To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. Totten. — To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. Tillotson.