プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
まく【×撒く】
❶〔あちこちに散らす〕scatter; sprinkle ((water))
凍った道に砂をまく
scatter sand on an icy road
花壇[芝生]に水をまく
water 「a flowerbed [the lawn]
ビラをまく
distribute handbills
❷〔連れなどをはぐらかす〕
うまく彼女をまいた
I slipped away from her./I succeeded in getting rid of her.
尾行をまく
shake off one's shadow/give one's shadow the slip