trot

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And as for your rising trot, I'd like to see you accomplish it safely on our mountain trails, where the trot is the only gait practicable, unless you take for ever to get anywhere."

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  1. 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.
  2. noun A ride on a horse at this pace.
  3. noun A gait of a person, faster than a walk; a jog.

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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
  • His pace was not more than a jog-trot, and he was limping along until he could see where the sandy road terminated, when he met a man in a car. —  The Dancing Druids - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 21: 1948
  • After their return from a “course,” tired out from whipping their forlorn horses into the sideling trot which is all they are equal to, and after flicking their ears until they are too lazy to continue, they hang their hats and stockingless feet over the carriage lamps and chew sugar-cane, looking the picture of contentment. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
  • He turned downtown at a dog-trot, and ran for three blocks south, one west, and two south. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • On came the hoofs--trot, trot, trot; and evidently more than those of one horse; their speed as they advanced appeared to slacken--it was only, however, for a moment. —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
 

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gallop ·  canter ·  gait ·  stride ·  lope ·  pace ·  footfall ·  walk ·  tread ·  halt ·  tramp ·  ascent

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trot:   trotted
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from troter, to trot, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter, French trotter =Provencal Spanish Portuguese trotar =Italian trottare, trot, from Middle Latin trottare, trotare, trot, go; prob. from Old High German trottōn, tread, Middle High German trotten, run (German trotten, trottieren, trot, after Roman), freq. of Old High German tretan, Middle High German G. treten, tread: see tread, and cf. trod, trode. The usual derivation, from Middle Latin *tolutare, through the assumed series *tlutare, later *tlotare, later trotare, trot (see tolutation), is improbable.
  2. from Middle English trot, from Old French trot =Provencal trot =Spanish Portuguese trote =Italian trotto (German trott); from the verb.
  3. A variant of trat.
 

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