trotted

Verb

trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)

1. (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
   • I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
2. (intransitive) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
3. (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
4. (UK, archaic, slang, transitive) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
   • A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder.1927, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, The Parliamentary Debates (Official Report), page 2221

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