Trot vs Hobble - What's the difference?

Trot is a related term of hobble.

As nouns the difference between trot and hobble

is that trot is trotskyist while hobble is short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.

As a verb hobble is

to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.

trot

English

(wikipedia trot)

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.“ Trot”, entry in 2008 , Anatolij Simonovi? Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction , page 208.

(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

* 2000 , Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility , page 14,

Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot , pace, and gallop.

* 2008 , Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse , Elsevier, page 154,

The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot'.The slow '''trot''' is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the '''trot''' of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended ' trot .

* 2009 , Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show , page 65,

To assume the correct position for the posting trot', first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting '''trot at six miles an hour. ''Do not post.

A gait of a person faster than a walk.

A toddler.

* 1855 , '', 1869, ''The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray'', Volume V: ''The Newcomes, Volume I , page 123,

but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.

(obsolete) A young animal.

(dance) A moderately rapid dance.

(mildly disparaging)

(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

A run of luck or fortune.

He?s had a good trot , but his luck will end soon.

* 1994 , Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing , page 34,

It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.

* 2004 , John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture , 2nd Edition, page 21,

Should he or she be having a bad trot , the exchange rate will be higher than normal.

Synonyms

* (gait of an animal between walk and canter) * (ugly old woman) See * (gait of a person faster than a walk) jog

Derived terms

* foxtrot * on the trot * trotter * turkey trot

Verb

(trott)

To walk rapidly.

(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Derived terms

* hot to trot

Synonyms

* (to walk rapidly) jog, pace ** See also ,

References

Anagrams

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hobble

English

Noun

(en noun) (usually in plural )

Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.

An unsteady, off-balance step.

Synonyms

* tether (rope)

Verb

To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.

(Charles Dickens)

To walk lame, or unevenly.

* Dryden

The friar was hobbling the same way too.

(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.

* Jeffreys

The hobbling versification, the mean diction.

To perplex; to embarrass.

Derived terms

* hobble skirt * hobbly * unhobble