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trotter|ˈtrɒtə(r)|
[f. trot v. + -er1; cf. med.L. trotārius (Du Cange), OF. trotier (Godef.).]
1. A horse (or other quadruped) which trots; spec. a horse especially bred and trained to the trot.
1381–2[see 6]. 1391–2Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 143 Pro duobus equis trotters cum duabus sellis per ipsum emptis. 1452Test. Ebor. (Surtees) III. 137, j equi basii, trotter, xs. 1592Greene Maiden's Dream Wks. (Rtldg.) 279/1 His stable full of coursers.., Trotters whose manag'd looks would some affright. 1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1412/4 A black brown Gelding about 15 hands,..a Trotter only. 1776Pennsylv. Even. Post 26 Mar. 154/2 A Dark Brown Coloured Horse..a natural trotter. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 31 A trotter constantly habituated to that pace. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. ii, Compare the racer with the trotter. 1890W. P. Lett in Big Game N. Amer. 88 The Caribou is the champion trotter of America. 1898Doyle Trag. Korosko v. 110 Most of them [camels] were beautiful creatures, true Arabian trotters.
b. A trotting-cart, a sulky.
1902Times 4 Apr. 9/6 He would come up in the morning in his ‘trotter’.
2. One who moves or goes about briskly and constantly; see trot v. 2.
spec. (University slang) a tailor's assistant who goes round for orders; also, a tailor's, dressmaker's, or milliner's girl messenger; at Dublin University, one who goes to Dublin for a degree, without residence (cf. term-trotter, at Oxford: see term n. 17); at Durham University, a day-student (cf. trot v. 2). (N.E.D.)
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 140 Neede makth tholde wyfe trot: is she a trotter now? 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Gaste-pavé, a trotter vpon the pauements, a walker by the streets. 1605Tryall Chev. ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 288 And this trotter is my ryval and loves Thomasin. 1765Foote Commissary i. Wks. 1799 II. 17 That eternal trotter after all the little draggle-tail'd girls of town. 1860Slang Dict., Trotter, a tailor's man who goes round for orders. University. 1883Durham Univ. Jrnl. 17 Dec. 141 We suspect that the ingenious inventor of the name ‘trotter’ was well aware that the name had a ridiculous sound. 1897Daily News 23 Feb. 3/1 She was a Trotter..she trotted to and fro between the East and the West, with patterns to match—silks, stuffs, and so on.
3. Usually pl. The feet of a quadruped, esp. those of sheep and pigs as used for food; also humorously, the feet of a human being.
(Quot. c 1358 doubtfully belongs here.)
[c1358in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. (1909) 742 Item in duro pisce frisc. vd o. Item in trotters viijd.] 1522Skelton Why not to Court 908 The chefe of your fayre Myght stand nowe by potters, And suche as sell trotters. c1550Lacy Wyl Buck's Test. (Halliw.) 58 For to make the Trotters of the Bucke. Take the foure fete, and skalde them [etc.]..and that ben the trotters. 1602Carew Cornwall i. 24 Not the dammes Foale, but the dames Trotters, be trusted vnto. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 174 He steales the sheepe; and gives the Trotters for Gods sake. a1650Anc. Poems, etc. (Percy Soc.) 164 Two calves' feet, and a bull's trotter. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. Pref., Finding out that some bald pated drone of a monk laid up his useless trotters in the corner of his Abbey, about 500 years ago. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 309 They will fasten the paws and trotters of panthers, bears, and buffalos, to their feet and hands. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 158/2 For supper there is a sandwich, a meat pudding, or a ‘trotter’. 1872M. Jewry Every-day Cookery 72/2 Perfectly cleanse and blanch the trotters.
4. See quot.
1864Daily Tel. 18 May, ‘The..trotters’—fishermen who..trot for whelks to sell as bait to the North Sea cod⁓smacks.
5. One who trots another out in conversation: see trot v. 4 c.
1818–19[see trottee].
6. attrib. and Comb., as trotter-bone, trotter-girl (see sense 2), † trotter-saddle, trotter-stall; trotter-boiler, one whose business is to treat the hoofs of animals by boiling; trotter-cases n. pl., boots or shoes (slang); trotter-pie: see quot.; trotter skirt (see also trotteur), a short, neat walking skirt.
1883R. Haldane Workshop Receipts Ser. ii. 301/1 Some [glue-making materials] that come from the *trotter-boilers..have been limed already.
1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 407 Take *trotter-bones; calcine and beat them to a fine powder, wherewith rub the spots on both sides. 1869Daily News 23 Aug., The original floor..was laid with ‘trotter bones’,..closely packed and driven into the ground to the depth of from three to four inches.
1821Hood Sent. Journ. Wks. 1862 I. 34 A young gentleman in very tight *trotter-cases,..his feet gave evident signs of suffering. 1838Dickens O. Twist xviii, ‘Japanning his trotter-cases’..rendered into plain English signifieth, cleaning his boots.
1903Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 10/1 The streets of Soho are unusually quiet; the *trotter girl, with her bundle of coats or trousers, is almost a curiosity.
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xviii. 151 We were..eating a Bushel of *Trotter-pies [orig. goudiveaulx (see Cotgr.)].
1381–2Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 592 Pro reparacione j *trottersadill.
1909Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 5/3 A..gown..for roller skating or merely for walking [with] a *trotter skirt.
1595Enq. Tripe-wife (1881) 148 Since I trotted from my *trotter stall, And figd about from neates feete neatly drest: I finde no pleasure nor content at all.
Hence ˈtrotteress (nonce-wd.), a female trotter (in globe-trotteress: cf. globe-trotter s.v. globe n. 10 b).
1892M. North Recoll. Happy Life (ed. 2) II. 213 Lady A. joined our three pairs of hands and blessed us—‘Three globe trotteresses all at once!’ |