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English Dictionary: trot by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trot
n
  1. a slow pace of running
    Synonym(s): jog, trot, lope
  2. radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
    Synonym(s): Trotskyite, Trotskyist, Trot
  3. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
    Synonym(s): pony, trot, crib
  4. a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
v
  1. run at a moderately swift pace
    Synonym(s): trot, jog, clip
  2. ride at a trot
  3. cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Horse \Horse\, n. (Student Slang)
            (a) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or
                  examination; -- called also {trot}, {pony}, {Dobbin}.
            (b) Horseplay; tomfoolery.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trot \Trot\, n. [F. See {Trot}, v. i.]
      1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a
            walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one
            fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are
            lifted at the same time. [bd]The limbs move diagonally in
            pairs in the trot.[b8] --Stillman (The Horse in Motion).
  
      2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
  
      3. One who trots; a child; a woman.
  
                     An old trot with ne'er a tooth.         --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trot \Trot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Trotting}.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably
      of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott[?]n
      to tread. See {Tread}.]
      1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to
            ride or drive at a trot. See {Trot}, n.
  
      2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
  
                     He that rises late must trot all day, and will
                     scarcely overtake his business at night. --Franklin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trot \Trot\, v. t.
      To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace
      called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or
      cantering.
  
      {To trot out}, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his
            paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition.
            [Slang.]
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