Trotter

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’tÉ™(r)

Origin

trot + -er

Full definition of trotter

Noun

1. A horse trained for harness racing

• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 4, The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
1. The foot of a pig or sheep.
• Orwell Animal Farm|6Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.