Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
dragline
English answer:
trail scent...scent trail
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airmailrpl
Dec 12, 2005 15:39
18 yrs ago
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dragline
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What does it in this context mean?
During the Minuteman vigil, Border Patrol supervisors in Arizona discounted their efforts, saying a drop in apprehensions during their protest was because of the Mexican government's deployment of military and police south of the targeted area and a new federal program known as the Arizona Border Control Initiative that brought manpower increases to the state.
The Naco supervisors blamed the volunteers for unnecessarily tripping sensors, disturbing **draglines** and interfering with the normal operations of the agents. They said that their impact on illegals was "negligible" and that civilians should leave immigration enforcement "to the professionals."
Thanks for your help.
During the Minuteman vigil, Border Patrol supervisors in Arizona discounted their efforts, saying a drop in apprehensions during their protest was because of the Mexican government's deployment of military and police south of the targeted area and a new federal program known as the Arizona Border Control Initiative that brought manpower increases to the state.
The Naco supervisors blamed the volunteers for unnecessarily tripping sensors, disturbing **draglines** and interfering with the normal operations of the agents. They said that their impact on illegals was "negligible" and that civilians should leave immigration enforcement "to the professionals."
Thanks for your help.
Responses
| 4 +1 | trail.. |
airmailrpl
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| 3 +1 | tracking strip |
Kim Metzger
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airmailrpl
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trail..
[PDF] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT WILBUR K ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
He followed the dragline of the deer. The dragline went ... a patrol vehicle’s PA system. Douglas Hart wore no orange clothing. The officers questioned ...
www.ctd.uscourts.gov/Opinions/012302.SRU.Hart.pdf
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Note added at 37 mins (2005-12-12 16:17:26 GMT)
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and the hounds prefer silence during this period. The hounds may follow a "drag" (scent left by hares) before the hare is spotted, they might sight the hare (although it must be quite close as hounds hunt by smell), ...
http://hsa.enviroweb.org/tactics/tactbook/harehunt.html
Drag
Drag - Scent left by a hare or mink.
Drag Hunt - Drag Hunts conform in every respect with fox hunts, except that the hounds follow an artificially laid line of scent instead of that of a hunted animal ...
http://nwhsa.redblackandgreen.net/hunting_terms.htm
DRAG: The scent line left by a fox when it returns to its bed after a night's hunting on its own account.
DRAG LINE: An artificial line used by trailing some suitable substance across country for a pack of hounds to follow ...
http://www.jorrocks.co.uk/misc/1
Note: The next day I saw a timber wolf stride through the area, smelling the bloodline from the drag. He was a good-sized animal. He followed the dragline that we took out of the woods.
Featured Sites ...
http://www.theoutdoorlodge.com/features/articles/hunting/...
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Note added at 38 mins (2005-12-12 16:18:16 GMT)
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dragline => scent trail
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Note added at 23 hrs 48 mins (2005-12-13 15:28:11 GMT)
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They probably use dogs to track the scent trail of illeagal immigrants
and the Minuteman volunteers disturb the scent trails
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
He followed the dragline of the deer. The dragline went ... a patrol vehicle’s PA system. Douglas Hart wore no orange clothing. The officers questioned ...
www.ctd.uscourts.gov/Opinions/012302.SRU.Hart.pdf
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Note added at 37 mins (2005-12-12 16:17:26 GMT)
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and the hounds prefer silence during this period. The hounds may follow a "drag" (scent left by hares) before the hare is spotted, they might sight the hare (although it must be quite close as hounds hunt by smell), ...
http://hsa.enviroweb.org/tactics/tactbook/harehunt.html
Drag
Drag - Scent left by a hare or mink.
Drag Hunt - Drag Hunts conform in every respect with fox hunts, except that the hounds follow an artificially laid line of scent instead of that of a hunted animal ...
http://nwhsa.redblackandgreen.net/hunting_terms.htm
DRAG: The scent line left by a fox when it returns to its bed after a night's hunting on its own account.
DRAG LINE: An artificial line used by trailing some suitable substance across country for a pack of hounds to follow ...
http://www.jorrocks.co.uk/misc/1
Note: The next day I saw a timber wolf stride through the area, smelling the bloodline from the drag. He was a good-sized animal. He followed the dragline that we took out of the woods.
Featured Sites ...
http://www.theoutdoorlodge.com/features/articles/hunting/...
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Note added at 38 mins (2005-12-12 16:18:16 GMT)
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dragline => scent trail
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Note added at 23 hrs 48 mins (2005-12-13 15:28:11 GMT)
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They probably use dogs to track the scent trail of illeagal immigrants
and the Minuteman volunteers disturb the scent trails
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Comment: "Hello, airmailrpl,
in this context your version convinced me.
I also imagine that all the people stepping around there disturb the dragline (scent trails) of the immigrants . Thanks a lot. Thanks also to Kim. Although also the tracking strip has a certain plausability, the word disturb combines to my opinion better with scent trail than with tracking strip. Saludos Karlo"
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21 mins
Kim Metzger
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tracking strip
Hi, Karlo. I haven't been able to confirm this hunch, but I think draglines are lines plowed into the ground to create a tracking strip so that agents can see tracks on the ground made by border crossers.
A dragline bucket is used in mining to scrape up the surface soil.
Dragline – A large excavation machine used in surface mining to remove overburden (layers of rock and soil) covering a coal seam.
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/minres/dms/website/t...
"What we need is a modern multiple fence system, with sensors and a plowed tracking strip. Then the Border Patrol will have a line to defend, instead of needing to roam across 100,000 square miles of open border land, looking for illegal crossers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521213/posts
Hundreds of motion and heat sensors strategically stitched into the surrounding hillsides alert Border Patrol agents to any stealth crossers. The agents, in turn, don’t just sit in their SUVs and munch doughnuts and doze off. They are out on their hands and knees in the middle of the night, flashlights and night scopes in hand, methodically searching for human tracks and trails.
http://laweekly.com/ink/04/02/features-cooper.php
A dragline bucket is used in mining to scrape up the surface soil.
Dragline – A large excavation machine used in surface mining to remove overburden (layers of rock and soil) covering a coal seam.
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/minres/dms/website/t...
"What we need is a modern multiple fence system, with sensors and a plowed tracking strip. Then the Border Patrol will have a line to defend, instead of needing to roam across 100,000 square miles of open border land, looking for illegal crossers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521213/posts
Hundreds of motion and heat sensors strategically stitched into the surrounding hillsides alert Border Patrol agents to any stealth crossers. The agents, in turn, don’t just sit in their SUVs and munch doughnuts and doze off. They are out on their hands and knees in the middle of the night, flashlights and night scopes in hand, methodically searching for human tracks and trails.
http://laweekly.com/ink/04/02/features-cooper.php
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Rebecca Barath
: this could also be a physical sensor tool, i.e a trip wire.
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