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trotter

noun

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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: As an English and Scottish surname for a messenger, from trot. As a German surname, from Trotte (“winepress”).

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.

  1. One who trots.

    “Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.”

    “... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]”

  2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.

    “The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.”

  3. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.

    “grange cookbook recipes for trotters”

    “Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.”

  4. A person's foot.

    “Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.”

  5. A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.

    “One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.”