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1616 Fraserburgh Kirk Session 16 Mar. Andro Beatisone hors paiser.

a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) i. i I love a woman of her years, a pacer That lays the bridle in her Neck, will travel Forty.

1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 9 The most furious and robust man is not the best horse-breaker and pacer.

1625 A. Garden Characters & Ess. 20 Hee is fore-pacer, in the path-gate to Grace, And worthie of Honour, respect of his Place.

1835 L. Hunt Capt. Sword ii. 5 Pacer of highway and piercer of ford.

1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley II. 500 The pacers on the terrace descried a strange sail rounding the point.

1930 T. S. Moore Myst. & Trag. 79 One of us Some postern-warder, pacer-of-the-wall, Must have connived and let thy sister pass.

1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 May 46/3 As an experienced corridor pacer..Mr. McGlotten sometimes seems to be everywhere at once, working the labyrinthine halls of the Capitol, trading gossip and vital information.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Hunt. 51 It is given to thorough-paced-Naggs, that amble naturally, to trip much whilest artificial pacers goe surest on foot.

1691 R. Ames Lawyerus Bootatus & Spurratus 12 The numerous company that Ride On Long-tails, Bob-tails, Trotters, Pacers, Pads, Higlers, Hawkers, Hunters, Racers.

1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1737) i. iv. 32 Your New England Pads are esteemed as the swiftest Pacers.

1716 E. Baynard Health 30 Be your Horse Pacer, or a Trotter.

1817 Sporting Mag. 50 25 The parson of the parish..mounts the old pacer.

1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. vi. 227 He entered New-Amsterdam as a conqueror, mounted on a Narraganset pacer.

1884 E. Eggleston in Cent. Mag. Jan. 445/1 The awkward but ‘prodigiously’ rapid natural amble of the American pacer.

1936 Literary Digest 1 Aug. 35/2 Pacers have a rolling, lunging movement that has earned them the nickname of ‘wigglers’ or ‘side-wheelers’. Left front and left rear legs come up together, followed by a counterbalancing lunge to the right.

1991 Washington Flyer Sept. Insert 10/2 Pacers were originally favored as riding horses.

1878 Amer. Cricketer 11 July 11/3 Bance had to face Dan Newhall's strategic bowling as well as Charley's ‘pacers’.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pacer, a fast horse; by extension, anything that exhibits remarkable speed or activity.

1989 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 26 Terry Alderman..and the Aussies' top pacer, Bruce Reid, whose injured back kept him out the series, were brought into the side along with batsman Dean Jones.

1993 Cricket World 3 Apr. 15/2 Opener Matthew Dowman scored a century and pacers Broadhurst and Chappalls ripped through the Indian innings twice to force the follow-on.

1893 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 July 10/2 In the contest of Saturday the riders were permitted to have pacemakers; but the innovation was not entirely successful, the competitors several times overrunning the pacer.

1895 Ld. Albemarle & G. L. Hillier Cycling (ed. 5) 342 Appended are the Rules for ‘Herne Hill Pacing’... No pacer is to remain on the path, unless actually pacing.

1999 Athletics Weekly 11 Aug. 28/4 Dryer followed everything the pacer did, going through 800m in 2:12.81 and the bell in 3:04.76 at which point she was left to go alone.

1963 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 11 366/1 Within two to three days after pacer implantation, the dogs assumed normal habits of eating and exercise.

1970 Daily Tel. 18 May 4/8 Surgeons..have implanted an electronic pacer in the neck of a teenager whose breathing would stop unless he consciously thought about it.

1988 Lancet 19 Mar. 638/1 Cardiac pacers are inserted at eight hospitals in Denmark but at 33 hospitals in Norway, which has about the same population size.