trotter

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who trots.
    — Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.
  2. 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 house.
  3. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
    — grange cookbook recipes for trotters
  4. A person's foot. slang
    — 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.
  5. A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders. UK,historical
    — 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.

词形变化

trotters plural

词源

From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
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