trotter

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

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.

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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.

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 of his county.