Trot /(?)/

Trot

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting

  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.

Trot

v. t.
  1. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Phrases & Compounds
To trot out
to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition.

Trot

n.
  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.
  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.