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▪ I. trotting, vbl. n.|ˈtrɒtɪŋ|
[f. trot v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb trot in various senses; spec. in U.S., a trotting-race.
14..Beryn 2402 Yeur rennyng & yeur trotting, in-to an esy pase I shall turn. 1470–85Malory Arthur iii. xiii. 116 A lytel afore mydnyȝt they herd the trottynge of an hors. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxiv. (1887) 98 Trotting..shaketh the bodie to violently. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vi. 193 Animalls..move per latera,..or per diametrum,..lifting the foot before, and the crosse foot behinde, which is succussation or trotting. 1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsem. Title-p., Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping. 1873H. E. P. Spofford Pilot's Wife in Casquet Lit. IV. 13/2 She and the nurse made such a racket.., with their shshshing and trotting and patting and stirring and sipping. 1882Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 At Lynn and other parts of the Wash they [whelks] are caught by a mode of fishing designated ‘trotting’. Green crabs are threaded together and let down into the water, and the whelk,..while sucking the meat out of the crabs, is easily drawn to the surface. 1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius v, ‘Do you have much racing in America?’.. ‘Yes. Trotting. Ag'd nags in sulkies. See how fast they can go a mile.’ 1969Daily Tel. 5 May 19/2 The most common is ‘trotting’—taking non-existent bids to force up the price.
b. attrib. as trotting-match, trotting-race, trotting-sulky, trotting-term (see trot v. 2), trotting-track, trotting-turf.
1822Sunday Times 20 Oct. 3/2 The roan trotting match for 500 sovereigns. 1840D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §1046 Formerly it was a maxim in trotting races, that weight did not form a considerable object. Ibid. §1049 The distances of this trotting match were [etc.]. 1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage (1870) 41 The certainty that Vane Steven's roan filly would lose the trotting-match. 1883Durham Univ. Jrnl. 17 Dec. 141 I'm going to keep a trotting term. 1888W. D. Lighthall Yng. Seigneur 74 The horse-trader's trotting-sulky was standing at the door. 1893Outing (U.S.) May 98/1 The perfect trotting track of the present time is built [etc.]. Ibid. 99/1 This early heroine of the trotting turf.
▪ II. ˈtrotting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That trots, in various senses.
trotting butcher, a butcher who goes his rounds on horseback. trotting seconds hand, in a watch, a hand which registers the seconds on the minute-divisions of the dial, pausing on each.
c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 88 Vnnethe he [Henry III] wold ryde any amblynge hors, bot myche trottynge hors, for to trauaylle hys body the more. 1480in Cely Papers (1900) 55, I whowlde awise yow brynge hower aull yowr trottyng hors. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §77 The .ix. propertyes of a foxe,..the .vii. to be shorte-trottynge. 1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xv. 28 Blinde bittels, flattering fellowes, trotting trulles, and wilful murtherers. 1660Blount Boscobel 23 The valiant Earl of Cleveland (who being above 60 years of age had marched 21 dayes together upon a trotting horse). 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii. Prol., A trotting burnie wimpling through the ground. 1842F. Trollope Visit to Italy I. i. 2 Inferences..deduced by trotting travellers from the aspect of the scenes through which they passed. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 175/2 The trotting butcher is..not likely to be succeeded by any in the same line, or..‘ride’ of business. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. 528 note, The trotting horse is driven, not ridden. 1900Jeweller's Catal., The Nurse's Watch, with long trotting seconds hand for taking the beats of the pulse. |