n. The set of mine cars run into or out of the mine as a unit or train.To run or step lightly; skip, dance, or walk nimbly along; move with a quick, light tread.To make a brisk movement with the feet; prance.To take a voyage or journey; make a jaunt or excursion.To stumble; strike the foot against something so as to lose the step and come near falling; make a false step; lose the footing.Hence Figuratively, to make a false movement; err; go wrong; be guilty of an inconsistency or an inaccuracy.To rush by: said of deer.Synonyms Hop, Leap, etc. See skip.To perform with a light or tripping step, as a dance.To cause to stumble or fall, make a false step, or lose the footing by catching or entangling the feet or suddenly checking their free action: often followed by up.To cause to stumble by placing an obstruction in the way; hence, to give a wrong turn to, or cause to halt or stumble, by presenting a mental or moral stumbling-block.To catch in a fault, offense, or error; detect in a misstep or blunder.Nautical: To loose, as an anchor from the bottom by means of its cable or buoy-rope.To turn, as a yard, from a horizontal to a vertical position.Theat., to double in the center: said of a drop so situated that there is not room enough to hoist it out of sight.In mech.: To strike against, as a moving part against an obstruction.To release suddenly, as the clutch of the windlass of a pile-driver, or the valve-closing mechanism in the trip-gear of a steam-engine, etc.n. A light, short step; a lively movement of the feet.n. A journey or voyage; an excursion; a jaunt; specifically, in transportation, the performance of service one way over a route, the performance of service both ways being a round trip.n. A sudden seizure or catch, as that by which a wrestler throws his antagonist.n. A stumble by the loss of foothold or a striking of the foot against an object.n. In machinery, a hitting of a moving part against some obstruction to its free movement.n. A failure; an error; a blunder.n. In the fisheries, the catch, take, or fare of fish caught during a voyage; the proceeds of a trip in fish.n. Nautical, a single board or tack in plying to windward.n. In coursing, an unsuccessful effort of the dogs to kill.n. A small arch over a drain.n. Synonyms Tour, Travel, etc. See journey.n. A number of animals (rarely of persons) together; a flock.n. Race; family.n. A piece (?).n. Three pence sterling.