Trotter Meaning
/trˈɑtər/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who trots.
nounIn 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.
Sentence Examples
Are you a globe trotter?
Ali drank trotter soup.
The horse was a fast trotter and won the race.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She ordered the pig's ____ at the restaurant, a dish often served with vinegar.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The pig's ____ is a part of the animal that is sometimes used in several traditional recipes in different cultures today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter."
— 2013, Stephen Dobyns, Saratoga Bestiary:
"... 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”.[…]"
— 2013 October 22, D. Ter Haar, Collected Papers of P.L. Kapitza: Volume 3, volume 3, Elsevier, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:
"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."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
"Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements."
— 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 51:
"In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement."
— 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 220:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She ordered the pig's ____ at the restaurant, a dish often served with vinegar.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The pig's ____ is a part of the animal that is sometimes used in several traditional recipes in different cultures today.