Noun
a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together

Noun
a slow pace of running

Noun
a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

Noun
radicals who support Trotsky''s theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution

Verb
run at a moderately swift pace

Verb
cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"

Verb
ride at a trot

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v. i.
To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

n.
Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

v. t.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.

v. i.
One who trots; a child; a woman.

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Trot

Trot , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trottn to tread. See Tread.] 1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n. 2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night.

Trot

Trot, v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. To trot out, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]

Trot

Trot, n. [F. See Trot, v. i.] 1. 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. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." Stillman (The Horse in Motion). 2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying. 3. One who trots; a child; a woman.

An old trot with ne'er a tooth.

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

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.