Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The gait of a horse or other four-footed animal, between a walk and a canter in speed, in which diagonal pairs of legs move forward together.
- noun A ride on a horse moving with this gait.
- noun A gait of a person, faster than a walk; a jog.
- noun Sports A race for trotters.
- noun Informal Diarrhea. Used with the.
- noun A toddler.
- noun Archaic An old woman.
- intransitive verb To go or move at a trot.
- intransitive verb To proceed rapidly; hurry.
- intransitive verb To cause to move at a trot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old woman: a term of disparagement.
- To go at a quick, steady pace; run; go.
- Specifically, to go at the quick, steady pace known as a trot. See
trot , n., 2, and trotter. - To cause to trot; ride at a trot.
- To ride over or about at a trot.
- To use a “pony” or some similar means in studying; “pony”: as, to
trot a lesson. [College slang, U. S.] - noun Quick, steady movement; “go”: as, to keep one on the trot all day.
- noun A gait faster than the walk and slower than the run.
- noun A toddling child; in general, a child: a term of endearment.
- noun A “pony”; a “crib.”
- noun A trot-line.
- noun A small line that sets off from the main trot-line, to The extreme end of which the hook is fastened. See
trotline .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
- noun Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
- noun One who trots; a child; a woman.
- transitive verb To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
- transitive verb [Slang.] to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition.
- intransitive verb To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See
trot , n. - intransitive verb Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
gait of a four-legged animal between walk andcanter , adiagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together). - noun A gait of a person faster than a walk.
- noun dance A moderately rapid
dance . - noun Short for
Trotskyist . - noun Australia, obsolete A succession of
heads thrown in a game oftwo-up . - noun Australia, New Zealand A run of
luck orfortune . - verb To
walk rapidly. - verb of a horse To move at a
gait between awalk and acanter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
- verb ride at a trot
- verb cause to trot
- noun a slow pace of running
- noun a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
- verb run at a moderately swift pace
- noun a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Quoth he, “The swindling old trot is no mother of mine; she hath cheated me and taken my clothes and a thousand dinars.”
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The road smoked in the twilight with children driving home cattle from the fields; and a pair of mounted stride-legged women, hat and cap and all, dashed past me at a hammering trot from the canton where they had been to church and market.
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The road smoked in the twilight with children driving home cattle from the fields; and a pair of mounted stride-legged women, hat and cap and all, dashed past me at a hammering trot from the canton where they had been to church and market.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The road smoked in the twilight with children driving home cattle from the fields; and a pair of mounted stride-legged women, hat and cap and all, dashed past me at a hammering trot from the canton where they had been to church and market.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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His heels touch Vola's flanks; the black snorts but picks up her feet into a quick trot, which is the most Creslin wants over the rough ground above the dunes, where a half-squad holds the high sand against twice as many Nordlans.
The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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He has a fox trot, which is wonderfully easy, and which he apparently can keep up indefinitely, and like all Indian horses can "run like a deer."
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe
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A lope is easier to ride, but the trot is the natural gait of a horse, and he can keep up
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If the trot had been the rhythmic _one, two, three, four_, Pete could have ridden and rolled cigarettes without spilling a flake of tobacco; but the trot was a sort of _one, two -- almost three_, then, whump!
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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The trot, sir '' (striking his Bucephalus with his spurs), --- ` ` the trot is the true pace for a hackney; and, were we near a town, I should like to try that daisy-cutter of yours upon a piece of level road (barring canter) for a quart of claret at the next inn. ''
Rob Roy 1887
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The upper part of his form, notwithstanding the season required no such defence, was shrouded in a large great-coat, belted over his under habiliments, and crested with a huge cowl of the same stale, which, when drawn over the head and hat, completely overshadowed both, and being buttoned beneath the chin, was called a trot-cozy.
The Waverley 1877
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This is ppongjjak – a revitalisation of a century-old Korean pop genre otherwise known as trot.
‘It’s like oxygen – it’s everywhere!’ Why Korea is hot for trot, the cheesiest pop imaginable James Balmont in Seoul 2022
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The hippo footage showed the animals, which can reach more than 2,000kg, typically trot, a movement that involves diagonally opposite legs moving in synchrony.
Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne 2022
oroboros commented on the word trot
Tort in reverse.
July 22, 2007
duckbill commented on the word trot
A hag.
April 23, 2011