I need to track down a computer so I can check my e-mails.
If you track down someone or something, you find them, or find information about them, after a difficult or long search. She had spent years trying to track down her parents I don't know where that old story came from, I've never been able to track it down
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
[ 'trak ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English trak, from Middle French trac, perhaps of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch tracken, trecken to pull, haul; more at TREK.