trots
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noun
- A supporter of Trotskyism.
noun
- Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
- Equipment with legs.
- Type of equipment.
- A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
noun
- Heroin (drug).“Alright, mate, got any horse?”
noun
- An ugly old woman, a hag.
- (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression.“In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.”
verb
- 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.”
- (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
noun
- Diarrhoea/diarrhea.“I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out.”
- (with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.