Meaning of Trotter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who trots.
2. A surname.
3. someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
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.
5. A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
   slang
6. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
7. A person's foot.
   slang
8. A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
   UK, historical

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Examples

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

“... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]”

“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.”

“grange cookbook recipes for trotters”

“Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.”

“In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.”

“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.”

“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.”

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