† thorough-pacern.
Obsolete.
A horse that is trained in all kinds of pace (pace n.1 6a).
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1684 London Gaz. No. 1945/4 A bay Nag..seven years old, a thorough pacer.
1860 Essex Standard 12 Dec. If her admirer be..a jockey, she is classed, in the jargon of the stables, ‘a thorough pacer’.
1905 Leader (Dublin) 29 July 374/1 Blind me, Hepenstall was a thorough-pacer, the true breed, sir, no mistake.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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