trotting.html - n.
racing for trotting horses pulling a two-wheeled vehicle and driver.

trotting.html - n.
1 a horse bred or trained for trotting.
2 (usu. in pl.) a an animal's foot as food (pig's trotters). b joc. a human foot.

trotting.html - n.
racing for trotting horses pulling a two-wheeled vehicle and driver.

trotting.html - {v. phr.} To bring out for inspection; display. * /Don't mention compact disks to Joe, or he'll trot out his entire collection and we'll be stuck here all night./

trotting.html - n.
colloq. usu. derog. a Trotskyist. [abbr.]

trotting.html - v. & n.
--v.

(trotted, trotting)
1 intr. (of a person) run at a moderate pace esp. with short strides.
2 intr. (of a horse) proceed at a steady pace faster than a walk lifting each diagonal pair of legs alternately.
3 intr. colloq. walk or go.
4 tr. cause (a horse or person) to trot.
5 tr. traverse (a distance) at a trot.

--n.

1 the action or exercise of trotting (proceed at a trot; went for a trot).
2 (the trots) sl. an attack of diarrhoea.
3 a brisk steady movement or occupation.
4 (in pl.) Austral. colloq. a trotting-races. b a meeting for these.

on the trot colloq.
1 continually busy (kept them on the trot).
2 in succession (five weeks on the trot). trot out 1 cause (a horse) to trot to show his paces.
2 produce or introduce (as if) for inspection and approval, esp. tediously or repeatedly. [ME f. OF troter f. Rmc & med.L trottare, of Gmc orig.]