Trend
Trend , intransitive verb
[Old English trenden to roll or turn about; akin to OFries. trind, trund, round, Danish & Swedish trind, Anglo-Saxon trendel a circle, ring, and English trendle, trundle.]
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
Trend , transitive verb
To cause to turn; to bend. [Rare]
Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends
Her silver stream.
Trend , noun
Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.
Collocations (1)
Trend of an anchor (Nautical) , (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. — R. H. Dana, Jr (b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
Trend , transitive verb
[Compare German & OD. trennen to separate.]
To cleanse, as wool. [Provincial English]
Trend , noun
Clean wool. [Provincial English]