Meaning of Dogtrot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
2. A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.
   Southern-US
3. A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.
   Southern-US

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Examples

“Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.”

“The dogtrot was protected from the rain⟳ and, because its front and back were open⟳, the Bernoulli principle provided a cooling effect ...”

“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.”

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