trot
/tɹɑt/ noun B2- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression. · We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.· In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
- A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together). · The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot.
- A toddler.
- A moderately rapid dance.
- Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
- Diarrhoea. · He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
Plural trots
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“Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood.
you thought to make us, unhappy strangers, trot at the heels of your processions, like so many lazzaroni, because no carriages or horses are to be had in your beggarly city.
He urged the horse again into a trot.
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