Crossword clues for dogtrot
Wiktionary
(''Southern US'') The design or form of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house n. 1 A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog. 2 (''Southern US'') A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house. v
To move at the pace of a dogtrot
WordNet
n. a steady trot like that of a dog
Usage examples of "dogtrot".
The men of the cadre were dragged down from their horses and marched up the steps into the dogtrot hall of the house.
Angeline shifted upon it, staring about the room at the bare walls, two of which had windows, one opening onto the dogtrot, the other onto the rear of the house, both covered by thick wooden shutters.
Rolfe was sleeping, he said, and volunteering Leopold and himself to keep watch in her place, he sent Angeline to the quarters across the dogtrot to partake of supper.
Angeline, standing in the doorway, weighed the choice of sitting at the long eating table with the McCullough and several of his men or returning to the dogtrot, where the other members of the cadre were engaged in card games and a contest with their guards that involved spitting tobacco juice into the yard.
And then she saw the outlaw guards, more than a dozen in number, file down the dogtrot, taking up positions along its length, each man armed with a long rifle primed and ready to fire.
With the pitcher in her hand, she left the bedchamber and, crossing the empty common room, stepped out into the dogtrot of the house.
With his black eyes dazed, he stared at the group of people standing in the dogtrot, and then his glance caught and held upon Angeline.
As he clattered into the yard, the cowbells strung in the dogtrot outside jangled out an alarm.
Folding her arms over her chest, she moved down the dark dogtrot to the front steps.
The glances of the two men locked for an instant, then Meyer gave a curt nod and moved away down the dogtrot and into the night.
It seemed she could hear Morning Star moving about on the other side of the dogtrot, in the area around the fireplace kitchen.
Flinging herself across the dogtrot, she pushed into the common room, jerked down her cloak from a peg in the wall, and whipped out again.
A short time later, the carriage drew up before a long, dogtrot cabin built of gray cypress logs with cypress shingles on the roof and a mud-daub chimney at each end pouring forth gray plumes of smoke.
They crowded into the dogtrot, shouting and laughing and passing demijohns of raw corn whiskey from hand to hand.
A young giant of a man sat his horse before the steps leading into the dogtrot of the house.