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Trotter
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 One who trots.
"Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter."
- 2 someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- 3 a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing wordnet
- 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 A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. slang
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- 6 foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food wordnet
- 7 The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
"grange cookbook recipes for trotters"
- 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."
- 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
From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
As an English and Scottish surname for a messenger, from trot. As a German surname, from Trotte (“winepress”).
As an English and Scottish surname for a messenger, from trot. As a German surname, from Trotte (“winepress”).
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