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To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

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  1. v. i. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
  2. n. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
  3. 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.
  4. v. i. 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.
  5. v. i. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
  6. v. i. One who trots; a child; a woman.
  7. n. radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
  8. n. a slow pace of running
  9. n. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
  10. n. a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
  11. v. run at a moderately swift pace
  12. v. ride at a trot