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

Never cut a track across a dangerous place at your own risk if there is the slightest chance of misleading another runner into danger later.

From Ski-running by Furse, Katharine Symonds

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)

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