English Dictionary

trotter

noun

One who trots. / 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 trotter raced around the track with incredible speed.

意味（1）

One who trots.

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

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.

grange cookbook recipes for trotters

意味（4）

(slang) A person's foot.

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.

意味（5）

(UK, historical) A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.

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 of his county.