WordNet
n. a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing [syn: trotter]
Usage examples of "trotting horse".
She managed to keep smiling when she learned why the sails were so full, the undulating riverbanks rushing by under the afternoon as fast as a trotting horse.
Bully for some, thinks I: wonder if you can do it on a trotting horse?
Indeed, so utterly miserable was she that the exquisite relief of sitting down, of a cessation of movement, of a release from that infernal perpetual-trotting horse, seemed only a mockery.
The skull of the trotting horse, Fleet Shadow, faintly lit by the coal fire in the farrier's furnace, watched over all.
Firelight on the trotting horse Fleet Shadow's long skull, empty as Providence, watching it all in blinders.
He was just starting to get the bow out, not easy on a trotting horse, when an arrow from the side took it down.
Distinct upon the stagnant air came the sounds of a trotting horse passing up Longpuddle Lane—.
Like a trotting horse breaking into a gallop, the Kathleen surged ahead: her stem sliced through the sea, flinging up a foaming white bow wave.
At last, when the space port lay behind as a scattering of white beads on the red-yellow earth of this land, the Terran used pressure of his knee, the calm authority of his mind, the gentle touch of hand, the encouragement of voice, to slacken the pace, to turn the now trotting horse back to the corral.