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semi-trailing (not comparable)

1. (horticulture) Having stems thick enough to stand somewhat erect, but eventually drooping like a vine.
   • 1957, Norman Taylor, Garden Guide, page 423:

     The latter method must be used for some varieties that are semi-trailing and for the frankly trailing sorts, such as the dewberry and youngberry.

   • 1999, African Violet Magazine - Volume 52, page 15:

     'Marion's Enchanted Trail' ( Pittman ) tends more toward the semi-trailing type, freely producing many crowns from which absolute masses of medium blue blooms are produced.

   • 2012, Lee A. Reich, Landscaping with Fruit:

     This plant is semi-trailing and cold-hardy.

   • 2020, Robert E Gough, ‎Edward Barclay Poling, Small Fruits in the Home Garden:

     The semi-trailing thornless blackberries may not qualify for a place in your home garden or landscape if you are unwilling to make a slight compromise on flavor.

2. (mechanics) Having a movement that pivots on an access which is at an angle between longitudinal and transverse.
   • 2002, Heinz Heisler, Advanced Vehicle Technology, page 397:

     Swivelling of these semi-trailing arms is therefore neither true transverse or true trailing but is a combination of both.

   • 2009, John C. Dixon, Suspension Geometry and Computation, page 28:

     The next development, introduced in 1951, was the semi-trailing arm in which the arm pivot axis is a compromise between the swing axle and the plain trailing arm, typically in the range of 15° to 25°, as in Figure 1.10.4.

   • 2010, Bernhard Heißing, ‎Metin Ersoy, Chassis Handbook, page 395:

     Semi-trailing links are optimal with regard to this requirement as they can support forces in both the lateral and longitudinal directions through the same pivot points.

   • 2022, Avesta Goodarzi, ‎Amir Khajepour, Vehicle Suspension System Technology and Design, page 14:

     To reduce this unwanted effect, the design of the trailing arm has been modified to a semi-trailing arm suspension, where the revolt axis of the control arm makes an angle with the vehicle's longitudinal axis, as shown in Figure 2.3.

   semi-trailing arm suspension

3. (verse) Having an opening syllable that is the continuation of a preceding line and including a syntactic break such as a comma or full stop somewhere after that but before the end.
   • 2001, David Keppel-Jones, Strict Metrical Tradition, page 79:

     I have already pointed out a tendency in the semi-trailing and trailing types for attention to be drawn subtly to the switched pair of syllables; this illusory trochaic framework serves at least in the trailing type to focus attention still more on that pair, as a switch. In the few examples we have of the semi-trailing type, the same effect is not always as clear.