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A moderately fast gait of a horse or other quadruped in which the legs move in diagonal pairs

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Usage examples (34)
  • Quoth he, “The swindling old trot is no mother of mine; she hath cheated me and taken my clothes and a thousand dinars.”
  • I don't have a drink problem, 3 drinks on the trot is my limit.
  • A lope is easier to ride, but the trot is the natural gait of a horse, and he can keep up
  • Isachoff says the piece, titled "Castles Half and Half," is part fox trot, which is in 4, and part waltz, in 3.
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