dogtrots

Noun

dogtrot (plural dogtrots)

1. A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
2. (Southern US) A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.
   • Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
3. (Southern US) A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.
   • 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.2007, Allen George Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (Architecture), I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 33

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