trot
see also: Trot
Pronunciation Noun
Trot
Noun
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see also: Trot
Pronunciation Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.]
- (chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
- 2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WeylCn55BYIC&pg=PT27&dq=%22trot%22%7C%22trots%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MEibUMXvFunRmAWO4oHwDQ&redir_esc=y page 14],
- Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.
- 2008, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse, Elsevier, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=it-m5VlwKRgC&pg=PA154&dq=%22trot%22%7C%22trots%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MEibUMXvFunRmAWO4oHwDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22trot%22%7C%22trots%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 154],
- The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot. […] The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.
- 2009, Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fAH3haSIUAcC&pg=PA65&dq=%22trot%22%7C%22trots%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MEibUMXvFunRmAWO4oHwDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22trot%22%7C%22trots%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 65],
- To assume the correct position for the posting trot, first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting trot at six miles an hour. Do not post.
- 2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WeylCn55BYIC&pg=PT27&dq=%22trot%22%7C%22trots%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MEibUMXvFunRmAWO4oHwDQ&redir_esc=y page 14],
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression.
- We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
- In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
- A toddler. [From 1854.]
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123 ↗,
- […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123 ↗,
- (obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.]
- (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
- (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
- He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
- 1994, Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=u04hAQAAIAAJ&q=%22good+trot%7Ctrots%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22good+trot%7Ctrots%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DmabUIH0Bu_2mAXW0oHQBg&redir_esc=y page 34],
- It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
- 2004, John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture, 2nd Edition, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZWQI5SNViXcC&pg=PA21&dq=%22good%7Cbad+trot%7Ctrots%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rmibUN-aEIrsmAXb2IDQBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22good%7Cbad%20trot%7Ctrots%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 21],
- Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal.
- (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse#English|horse illegitimate study aid
- (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
- He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
- (gait of an animal between walk and canter)
- (ugly old woman) See Thesaurus:old woman
- (gait of a person faster than a walk) jog
- Italian: trotterellio
- Russian: трусца́
- Spanish: trote
- Russian: трот
- Spanish: foxtrot
- Spanish: racha
trot (trots, present participle trotting; past and past participle trotted)
- (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
- I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
- The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv ↗:
- I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.
, Runaway Jane: - They sent little Jane to the garden to play,
- But she opened the gate, and then trotted away
- Under the hawthorns and down the green lane,
- Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!
- (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
- (to walk rapidly) jog, pace
- See also Thesaurus:walk, Thesaurus:run
- Italian: trottare
- Russian: спеши́ть
- Spanish: trotar
trot (uncountable)
- A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
- ppongjjak
trot (plural trots)
- (disparaging, properly Trot) Clipping of Trotskyist#English|Trotskyist.
Trot
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (slang, derogatory) A Trotskyist.
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