cut a track

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She’d cultivated it for years among L.A.’s avant-garde, and one of Dre’s collaborators found her and brought her in to cut a track.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024

“We cut a track with shovels and encouraged them down. They’re very quiet cattle so it wasn’t very hard to do,” he said.

From Time • Nov. 15, 2016

As for the men, they’d have to cut a track to let their big boots pass.

From Hunted and Harried by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

There was just room to pass, but so little to spare that the axle on the off side had cut a track through the one tree by the process of frequent touching.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard

This experience taught us to be more careful, and in one place we cut a track through five miles of it for the sheep to pass.

From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)