trot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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.
2. n. A ride on a horse at this pace.
3. n. A gait of a person, faster than a walk; a jog.
4. n. Sports A race for trotters.
5. n. See pony.
6. n. Informal Diarrhea. Used with the.
7. n. A toddler.
8. n. Archaic An old woman; a crone.
9. v. To go or move at a trot.
10. v. To proceed rapidly; hurry.
11. v. To cause to move at a trot.
12. trot out Informal To bring out and show for inspection or admiration: "His novel trots out an Irish president named Finn” ( Charles E. Claffey).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To go at a quick, steady pace; run; go.
2. Specifically, to go at the quick, steady pace known as a trot. See trot, n., 2, and trotter.
3. To cause to trot; ride at a trot.
4. To ride over or about at a trot.
5. To use a “pony” or some similar means in studying; “pony”: as, to trot a lesson. [College slang, U. S.]
6. n. Quick, steady movement; “go”: as, to keep one on the trot all day.
7. n. A gait faster than the walk and slower than the run. In the trot of bipeds both feet are alternately off the ground at the same time for an interval in each step; in that of quadrupeds, in a very slow trot there is always one foot on the ground, a part of the time two feet, and a part of the time three. If fast, there are two intervals in each stride when all the feet are off the ground (the stride being the distance in time or space between the successive points on the ground touched by the same foot), the horse leaving the ground from the hind feet in succession, while in the run he leaves the ground from a fore foot. In the trot the limbs move in pairs, diagonally but not quite simultaneously, even in the “square trot.” If the difference becomes considerable, it constitutes “single-footing”; if the difference becomes so great that the action is reversed, and the pair of limbs on the same side move together, it becomes “pacing.” While the trot is naturally a slower gait than the run, it has become the instinctive fast gait in certain breeds of horses. See trotter, and cut in preceding column.
8. n. A toddling child; in general, a child: a term of endearment.
9. n. A “pony”; a “crib.”
10. n. A trot-line.
11. n. A small line that sets off from the main trot-line, to The extreme end of which the hook is fastened. See trotline.
12. n. An old woman: a term of disparagement.

Wiktionary

1. n. A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
2. n. A gait of a person faster than a walk.
3. n. dance A moderately rapid dance.
4. n. Short for Trotskyist.
5. n. Australia, obsolete A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
6. n. Australia, New Zealand A run of luck or fortune.
7. v. To walk rapidly.
8. v. of a horse To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See trot, n.
2. v. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
3. v. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
4. n. 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.
5. n. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
6. n. One who trots; a child; a woman.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
2. v. ride at a trot
3. v. cause to trot
4. n. a slow pace of running
5. n. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
6. v. run at a moderately swift pace
7. n. a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together