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dog-trot
1. An easy trot like that of a dog.
1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 754 They both advanc'd and rode A Dog-trot through the bawling Crowd. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VII. 258, I hope that..keeping on a good round dog-trot, I shall be able to overtake thee. 1861C. Boner Forest Creatures 2 [The wild boar] setting off at his old dog-trot. 1868B. J. Lossing Hudson 11 Our Indian took the heaviest [boat]..and with a dog-trot bore it the whole distance.
attrib.1830C. Clarke 3 Courses & Dessert 116 Still came on at a dog-trot pace.
†b. fig. A steady or habitual course of action; a habit, ‘way’. Obs. Cf. jog-trot.
1690Dryden Amphitryon iii. Wks. 1884 VIII. 54 I'll fall into my old dog-trot of lying again, if this must come of plain dealing. 1742Warburton Remarks Tillard Wks. 1811 XI. 152 The common dog-trot of infidelity and free-thinking.
2. lit. A journey performed by dogs on the trot.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. i. 12 A dog-trot of near one hundred miles, where your dogs may drop at any moment. |