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trot
(tr/A/t )

noun (n)

  • a slow pace of running(noun.act)
    Synonym:
    jog, lope
    source: wordnet30
  • radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution(noun.person)
    source: wordnet30
  • a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)(noun.communication)
    Synonym:
    crib, pony
    source: wordnet30
  • a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together(noun.act)
    source: wordnet30
  • The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • run at a moderately swift pace(verb.motion)
    Synonym:
    clip, jog
    source: wordnet30
  • ride at a trot(verb.motion)
    source: wordnet30
  • cause to trot(verb.motion)
    Example:
    She trotted the horse home.
    source: wordnet30
  • To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.(verb)
    source: webster1913
  • To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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