trot
v.
move briskly; move with a gait between a walk and run (usually of a horse); cause to trot
n.
gait between a walk and a run, jog; gait of a horse between a walk and a canter; (Archaic) old woman
Trot
Trot
Noun
1. radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
(synonym) Trotskyite, Trotskyist
(hypernym) radical
trot
Noun
1. a slow pace of running
(synonym) jog, lope
(hypernym) locomotion, travel
(hyponym) dogtrot
(derivation) jog, clip
2. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
(synonym) pony, crib
(hypernym) translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version
3. a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
(hypernym) gait
(hyponym) rising trot
Verb
1. run at a moderately swift pace
(synonym) jog, clip
(hypernym) run
(derivation) jog, lope
2. ride at a trot
(hypernym) ride horseback
(classification) riding, horseback riding
3. cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"
(hypernym) walk
trot (m)
n.
trotting, trot, gait between a walk and a run, jog
Trot
(v. t.)
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
(v. i.)
To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
(v. i.)
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.
(v. i.)
One who trots; a child; a woman.
(v. i.)
Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
(n.)
Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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