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Dogtrot
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- 1 Having an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. Southern-US, not-comparable
"If America can claim any significant development in log construction, it might be the dogtrot cabin, … Henry Glassie believes that the dogtrot form developed in the southern Tennessee Valley area ..."
- 1 A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
- 2 a steady trot like that of a dog wordnet
- 3 A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house. Southern-US
"Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot."
- 4 A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. Southern-US
"One Appalachian solution to the problem of adding needed living space to an existing small cabin was the dogtrot, sometimes called the dogrun, possum trot, two pens-and-a-passage, double house, or erroneously the double pen."
- 1 To move at the pace of a dogtrot. intransitive
"The stewardess released us like a pack of noisy school kids and I dogtrotted toward the gate."
Etymology
From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
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