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Trot vs Piaffe - What's the difference?

trot | piaffe |

As nouns the difference between trot and piaffe

is that trot is trotskyist while piaffe is (dressage) a calm, composed, elevated trot in place.

As a verb piaffe is

(archaic|rare) to strut pretentiously, to parade about.

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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    piaffe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dressage) A calm, composed, elevated trot in place.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, rare) To strut pretentiously, to parade about.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1593 , year_published= 1968 , author= John Eliot , by= , title= Ortho-epia Gallica: Eliots fruits for the French , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=tP9uUd-3LsbK0AGy7IGYCg&id=DrhZAAAAMAAJ&dq=Ortho-epia+Gallica&q=piaffed
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    • , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Scolar P. , location= , editor= , volume= , page= A3 , passage= Which loue you must know was ingendered in the sweet soile of Fraunce, where I piaffed like a bon companion, with a steele at my girdle, till the Friars (a canker of the curssed Covent) fell to drawing of naked knives, and kild indeed the good kind Henrie of Fraunce, the more was the pittie. }}
  • To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1761 (1778) , year_published= 1905 , author= , by= Earl of Pembroke , title= A new English dictionary on historical principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, Volume 7, Part 2 , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=AnBXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA813 , original= Mil. Equitation , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= James A. H. Murray , volume= , page= 813 , passage= To piaffe in backing is rather too much to be expected in the hurry which [etc.]. }}
  • To ride a horse in this way.
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    • , year= 1814 , year_published= 2008 , author= , by= , title= Waverley , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=3wJvUfj6Hqjk0QHo2ICABQ&id=x-RoAAAAMAAJ&dq=piaffed&q=piaffed
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    • , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Edinburgh University Press , location= , editor= Peter Garside , volume= 1 of Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels , page= 289 , passage= Accordingly he piaffed away in high spirits and confidence to the head of Fergus's regiment, although understanding not a word of Gaelic, and very little English. }}