Trot

Word TROT
Character 4
Hyphenation trot
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Trot"

What do we mean by trot?

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

A race for trotters. noun

Diarrhea. Used with the. noun

A toddler. noun

An old woman. noun

To go or move at a trot. intransitive verb

To proceed rapidly; hurry. intransitive verb

To cause to move at a trot. intransitive verb

To bring out and show for inspection or admiration. phrasal verb

An old woman: a term of disparagement. noun

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.

Quick, steady movement; “go”: as, to keep one on the trot all day. noun

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Equipment with legs.

Type of equipment.

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).

(among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

(among students) horseplay; tomfoolery

Synonyms and Antonyms for Trot

The word "trot" in example sentences

Quoth he, “The swindling old trot is no mother of mine; she hath cheated me and taken my clothes and a thousand dinars.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (1879)

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. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1992)

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." ❋ Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (N/A)

A lope is easier to ride, but the trot is the natural gait of a horse, and he can keep up ❋ Unknown (1911)

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! ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)

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. '' ❋ Unknown (1887)

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. ❋ Unknown (1877)

The lady who has practised leaning back (p. 158) will be able almost at once to adapt herself to the requirements of the canter; but as the trot is the subject of her study, the horse should be instantly pulled up. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)

We must remember that the trot is the most difficult of all paces, and can be correctly acquired only after much patient practice; but it is worth doing well. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)

Like the Syrians, they have only three paces, the walk, the lazy loping canter, and the brisk hard gallop; the trot is a provisional passage from slow to fast. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

To the furious gallop had succeeded the fast trot, and that had sunk to what might be scarcely called a trot at all. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

To finish the championship in that manner having clocked up three victories on the trot was a bit of a choker. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Isachoff says the piece, titled "Castles Half and Half," is part fox trot, which is in 4, and part waltz, in 3. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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