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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A horse trained to pace.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who paces, or measures by pacing.
  • noun A horse whose natural gait is a pace.
  • noun Hence, a fast horse; by extension, anything that exhibits remarkable speed or activity.
  • noun Same as pace-maker, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, paces.
  • noun A horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together; a horse that paces.
  • noun A horse used to set the pace in racing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who paces.
  • noun A breed of horse used in harness races.
  • noun Short for pacemaker.
  • noun Australia A mechanical pencil.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a horse used to set the pace in racing
  • noun a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together

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