Word: trots
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shown that in walking a horse touches the ground with his left lateral hind foot, left lateral fore foot, right lateral hind foot and right lateral fore foot, in the order named. Two and sometimes three feet in the walk and amble are always on the ground. In the trot, rack, canter and run the horse in certain positions does not touch the ground at all. Especially is this case in a swift run when the horse is in the air more than half the time. With the stereoptican and Zoopraxiscohe the movements of horses walking, trotting cantering, jumping...
...urged to their use, and why their use does not result, on the whole, in a saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course is very apt to regard with horror any toleration of the use of the ubiquitous "trot," and to set down such a liberty as a moral sin. What seems the most absurd manifestation of this sort of prejudice is the custom in vogue among the professors of Lehigh University, where the text books in use are immediately changed as soon as a "pony" is found. A standard which...
...this university, at present so devoted to study. Zion's Herald has left us in peace, Joseph Cooke has gone West on an exhibition tour as an "Eastern dude," while Gen. Butler has retired to the quiet of his study with a borrowed copy of a degree and the "trot" furnished by the Advertiser. But no sooner do these deadly foes of Harvard retire from the attack than an old foe re-appers on the scene - the "musical fiend...
After the recent defeat of the Bowdoin nine at Williams one of the Bowdoin men was overheard to remark at the depot, while waiting for the train, "If there's a nine anywhere in Massachusetts that we can beat, I'll give some one five dollars to trot them...
...right manipulate the trot...