To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either
forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side.
Totten. — To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by
instruction or practice; to bring up.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will
not depart from it.
Prov. xxii. 6.
The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory.
Tillotson.
Train, v. i. 1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a
military company.
2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical
contest; as, to train for a boat race.
Train, n. [F. train, OF. traïn, trahin; cf. (for some of the senses) F.
traine. See Train, v.] 1. That which draws along; especially,
persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my
charms, and to my wily trains." Milton.
2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for
an animal; a snare. Halliwell.
With cunning trains him to entrap un wares.
Spenser.
3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that
which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : —
(a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
(b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
(c) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns
their bodies, like the rudder of ship." Ray.