drag path

noun drag paths

1. A path or trail on which something was (or can be) dragged or moved. At several spots along the drag path she saw sets of deep claw indentations.
2. A skid trail or skid road; a narrow, temporary path created or used by forestry machinery (skidders) to drag felled trees or logs from the stump to a central landing area for processing. The specimen was one of a pair in dense bamboo and deciduous scrub jungle bordering a drag-path for logs.
3. A visible trail, mark, or disturbance on the ground or floor indicating that a person, victim, or heavy object was dragged from one location to another; a critical piece of forensic evidence used to reconstruct movements, locate bodies, or identify the path taken by perpetrators. A dragpath of blood went through the double doorway and the hall, where the attackers must have taken away some wounded of their own.