To turn; revolve; roll.To travel round or along a region, tract, etc., at its edge; skirt; coast.To have a general course or direction; stretch or incline; run: as, the American coast trends southwest from Nova Scotia to Florida.Figuratively, to have a general tendency or proclivity; incline; lean; turn. See trend, n., 2.In geology and mining, same as strike, 5.To cause to turn or roll.To follow the course or direction of; coast along.n. A general course or direction; inclination of the course of something toward a particular line or point.n. A general tendency or proclivity; a final drift or bent; an ultimate inclination.n. Nautical, the thickening of an anchor-shank as it approaches the arms.n. A current or stream.To cleanse, as wool. Also trent.n. Clean or cleansed wool.