pacers

Noun (1)

pacer (plural pacers)

1. One who paces.
2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.
3. (archaic) A horse whose natural gait is a pace (where the legs of the same side are lifted together).
   • And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain.
     Time with me goes slow. —
     "Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain,"
     But that grief is heavy I know.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 175
4. A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).
5. A timer in an electric toothbrush that indicates how long the user should spend brushing in each part of the mouth.

Noun (2)

pacer (plural pacers)

1. (Australia) A mechanical pencil.

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