trotter
/tɹˈɑtɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who trots.
noun
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.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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”.[…]"
- "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."
- "grange cookbook recipes for trotters"
- "Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements."
- "In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: trottere, -