trot

v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. [ 1913 Webster ]

To trot out, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Trot, v. i. ] 1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. “The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot.” Stillman (The Horse in Motion). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who trots; a child; a woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

An old trot with ne'er a tooth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A variant of truth. See Truth. ] 1. Belief; faith; fidelity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bid her alight
And hertroth plight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Betrothal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Faitless; false; treacherous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Betrothed; espoused; affianced. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To betroth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having fidelity pledged. [ 1913 Webster ]