Definition of "cow-path" []

• A path or track made by cows. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "An hour later Lute and Chris turned aside from the road and dipped along a cow-path down the high bank to water the horses, before going into camp."
• "Then they followed the cow-path through more woods and thickets and scattered glades, and dropped down the hillside to where the farm-house, poised on the lip of the big canon, came into view only when they were right upon it."
• "The trail became a cow-path, the cow-path became a wood-road, which later joined with a hay-road; and they rode down through the low-rolling, tawny California hills to where a set of bars let out on the county road which ran along the bottom of the valley."