trotter

One who trots.

Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.

... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]

In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.

grange cookbook recipes for trotters

Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.

A person's foot.

Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.

A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.

One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.

A surname.

someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.