Verb

(en verb)

(label) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).

(label) To drag (something) behind on the ground.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

"I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.

(label) To leave (a trail of).

(label) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.

To be losing, to be behind in a competition.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 29, author=Keith Jackson, work=Daily Record

, title= SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , passage=Neil Lennon and his players have, in almost no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.}}

(label) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.

To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.

(Longfellow)

(label) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.

* (1816-1855)

I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.

Verb

(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

I spun myself around a few times.

Spin the ball on the floor.

The Earth spins with a period of one day.

She spun around and gave him a big smile.

* Longfellow

Round about him spun the landscape, / Sky and forest reeled together.

To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.

They spin the cotton into thread.

* Prior

They neither know to spin , nor care to toil.

To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.

* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=February 9, title=The Politics of Science, work=The Washington Post citation

, passage=In every administration there will be spokesmen and public affairs officers who try to spin' the news to make the president look good. But this administration is trying to ' spin scientific data and muzzle scientists toward that end.}}

(cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.

(cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.

(cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar

To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.

To move swiftly.

to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.

Blood spins from a vein.

(Shakespeare)

To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.

(computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.