Trotter

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who trots.

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

  2. 2
    someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
  3. 3
    a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing wordnet
  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. slang
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  1. 6
    foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food wordnet
  2. 7
    The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.

    "grange cookbook recipes for trotters"

  3. 8
    A person's foot. slang

    "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."

  4. 9
    A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders. UK, historical

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

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