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Meanings of trotting horse in English

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cavall trotador

A horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing.

cavall trotador
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Examples for "trotter"
Examples for "trotter"
1
I rode over to the race track to see the new trotter.
The Crisis — Complete
2
Some of the old Lee silver had paid for that waning trotter.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
3
The white steed being no trotter, Parker followed at a lumbering canter.
Cashel Byron's Profession
4
The Doctor's mare passed more than one fleet-footedtrotter on the road.
The Crisis — Volume 07
5
Her street possessed a tripe-and-trotter stall, and she was a lazy cook.
Shadows in Bronze
Usage of trotting horse in English
1
The next day I mounted a hard- trotting horse and rode to Round Top.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 / A Maga...
2
His heart was beating like the trample of a trotting horse.
Sir Gibbie
3
He was roused from his reverie by the sound of a trotting horse.
Vivian Grey
4
The noise of a trotting horse came from the road.
Casanova's Homecoming
5
Can you run step for step with a trotting horse for some few miles?
Tom Tufton's Travels
6
At this moment the silence without was broken by the sound of a trotting horse.
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
7
At the moment a swift trotting horse, bearing a light sulky and a man, went by.
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
8
Accordingly in a few minutes we were speeding out of the town drawn by a fast- trotting horse.
A Traveller in Little Things
9
No, not the trotting horse, nor the trolley on the track, nor any other of the mechanical stuff.
Red Pepper Burns
10
With a good trotting horse, and a better road, three quarters of an hour would bring you there.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
11
Tom Watterly arrived at the door with his fast- trotting horse at the same time, and cried, Hello, Jim!
He Fell in Love with His Wife
12
When a trotting horse is 'speeded,' a running horse must go beside him to keep him to the pace.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life...
13
Well, I can't say that I exactly got them, although I bred her to a splendid, sorrel trotting horse.
The Little Lady of the Big House
14
The lyrinx was moving as fast as a trotting horse, the breath whistling in and out of his lungs.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
15
That same afternoon, Lady Bellamy ordered out the victoria with the fast trotting horse, and drove to the Abbey House.
Dawn
16
She sat there, behind the slowly trotting horse, serene, but with a serenity that contained the potentiality of every passion.
Eyeless in Gaza
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