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trot·ter

(trŏt′ər)

1. A horse that trots, especially one trained for harness racing.

2. Informal A foot, especially the foot of a pig or sheep prepared as food.

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trotter

(ˈtrɒtə)

1. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) a person or animal that trots, esp a horse that is specially trained to trot fast

2. (Zoology) (usually plural) the foot of certain animals, esp of pigs

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

trot•ter

(ˈtrɒt ər)

n.

1. an animal that trots, esp. a horse bred and trained for harness racing.

2. a pig's foot used as food.

[1325–75]

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Noun	1.	trotter - foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food animal foot, foot - the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings pig, squealer, Sus scrofa, grunter, hog - domestic swine sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
	2.	trotter - a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing trotting horse bangtail, race horse, racehorse - a horse bred for racing pole horse - the horse having a starting position next to the inside rail in a harness race

Translations

قَدَم الخَنْزير

vepřové nožičky

grisetæer

Haxen Schweinshaxen

disznóláb

svínslöpp

grisefot syltelabb

bravčové nožičky

domuz paçası/ayağı

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trotter

[ˈtrɒtəʳ] N

1. (= horse) → trotón m, caballo m trotón

2. pig's trotters → manitas fpl (de cerdo or (LAm) chancho)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

trotter

[ˈtrɒtə^r]

n (= horse) → trotteur m trotters

npl (British) pig's trotters → pieds mpl de porc

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

trotter

n (= horse) → Traber m

trotter

n (of animal) → Fuß m; pigs’ trotters (Cook) → Schweinsfüße pl

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

trotter

[ˈtrɒtəʳ] n

a. (horse) → trottatore m

b. (Culin) pig's trotter → zampone m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

trot

(trot) – past tense, past participle ˈtrotted – verb

(of a horse) to move with fairly fast, bouncy steps, faster than a walk but slower than a canter or gallop. The horse trotted down the road; The child trotted along beside his mother.

noun

the pace at which a horse or rider etc moves when trotting. They rode at a trot.

ˈtrotter noun

a pig's foot.

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Trotter acquiesced in this agreeable proposal; and having deposited his book in his coat pocket, accompanied Mr.

Job Trotter plainly showed by gestures that he perceived his new friend's anxiety to draw forth an answer to it.

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The old count had money enough that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, passed his time very gaily.

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I shall wear my purchase at Miss Trotter's ball to-night."

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"To the health of your master and mistress, Trotter," Mr.

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He smiled ironically, looking at the raven horse, and was already deciding in his own mind that this smart trotter in the char-a-banc was only good for promenage, and wouldn't do thirty miles straight off in the heat.

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His mother had been a Miss Trotter, of Chicago, and it was on her dowry that the Runnymedes contrived to make both ends meet.

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'Trotters,' said Mr Codlin, who talked very slowly and ate very greedily, as is not uncommon with philosophers and misanthropes;

The real name of the little man was Harris, but it had gradually merged into the less euphonious one of Trotters, which, with the prefatory adjective, Short, had been conferred upon him by reason of the small size of his legs.

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Beaufort was kind enough to send his famous trotters for me this morning, so that I might have at least a glimpse of one of Regina's garden-parties; but this evening I go back to rural life.

All night he lay awake in the big chintz bedroom at May's side, watching the moonlight slant along the carpet, and thinking of Ellen Olenska driving home across the gleaming beaches behind Beaufort's trotters.

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I have no wish to weary your Highness by dwelling on the sad thoughts which accompanied my change of shape, but it may interest you to hear that the next morning my host went out early to do his marketing, and returned laden with the sheep's heads, and tongues and trotters that formed his stock in trade for the day.