trotter
trotter noun: one who trots.
Noun (1)
trotter (plural trotters)
- One who trots.
- 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
- In 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.
- 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...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
- The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
- grange cookbook recipes for trotters
- 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...
- A person's foot.
- Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.2004, Charley Hester, Kirby Ross, The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy, page 27
- A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
- One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions, page 8
Proper noun capitalized: Trotter
Trotter
- A surname.
Noun (2) capitalized: Trotter
Trotter (plural Trotters)
- someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
trotter meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
trotter in Tamil
- குலுக்கநடைப்பரி
trotter in Urdu
- پائے
trotter in Bengali
- খেলোয়াড়, কোচ ইত্যাদি, বাস্কেটবল দলের একজন খেলোয়াড়
Examples of trotter in a sentence
- Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- 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:
Forms of trotter
| plural | trotters |
|---|---|
| plural | Trotters |
Origin of trotter
From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
As an English and Scottish surname for a messenger, from trot. As a German surname, from Trotte (“winepress”).
Words formed from trotter
Phrases with trotter
Words that rhyme with trotter
Questions about trotter
- What does trotter mean?
- Trotter means one who trots.
- What is trotter in Tamil?
- Trotter in Tamil is குலுக்கநடைப்பரி. See Trotter meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use trotter in a sentence?
- Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
- What part of speech is trotter?
- Trotter can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of trotter?
- The plural of trotter is trotters.
Words near trotter in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trotter (page history and authors); Trotter (page history and authors); trotter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trotter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Trotter (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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