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Trot   /trɑt/   Listen
Trot

noun
1.
A slow pace of running.  Synonyms: jog, lope.
2.
Radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution.  Synonyms: Trotskyist, Trotskyite.
3.
A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly).  Synonyms: crib, pony.
4.
A gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together.
verb
(past & past part. trotted; pres. part. trotting)
1.
Run at a moderately swift pace.  Synonyms: clip, jog.
2.
Ride at a trot.
3.
Cause to trot.



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"Trot" Quotes from Famous Books



... to trot, and the ass followed. The first moments were terrible for Gorenflot, but he managed to keep his seat. From time to time Chicot stood up in his stirrups and looked forward, then, not seeing what he looked for, redoubled ...
— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas
... fling he threw the pill far into the night. Then, in an access of energy born of internal panic, he slid nimbly from his perch and started in a steady jog-trot into the road, wiping away the tears as he went, and stammering between sobs as he ...
— Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... into a trot again, and they plodded on heavily. It was impossible for him to speak now, but he pointed at the rocks below St. Michel where two men were scrambling down, and Barbara understood that ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... scrubbing off save on Sundays when she too makes one of the throng in the boulevards, faces the hard labor with light-hearted confidence, and plans to save a sou here and there for the dot of the baby who shares in the distribution of coal-dust, and will presently trot by her ...
— Prisoners of Poverty Abroad • Helen Campbell
... interest in the baby; now, going round and round upon the hearth, and lying down as if he had established himself for the night; now, getting up again, and taking that nothing of a fag-end of a tail of his, out into the weather, as if he had just remembered an appointment, and was off, at a round trot, to keep it. ...
— The Cricket on the Hearth • Charles Dickens


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