1
: one that trots
specifically
: a standardbred horse trained for harness racing
2
: a pig's foot used as food
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My mom always emphasized the role of food: some dishes, like pork trotters with peanuts or ginger chicken drenched in sesame oil, are said to repair the uterus.
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Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
—Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
Slide your trotters into the foot holes (the liners zip out for easy cleaning) and let the machine compress, roll and pummel your lower appendages over the course of a timed 15- or 20-minute cycle.
—Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
One of harness racing’s most esteemed families is hoping for a fifth Hambletonian victory Saturday with trotter Winner’s Bet in the $1-million competition.
—Naaima Abd-Elhameed, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
Signs identify the New England farms where the beef and pork were raised, and though these customers are choosing steaks, Clark’s cases hold cuts and products not often seen in a supermarket — pork brisket, flat iron steak, oxtail, pork trotter and belly, beef tallow, and more.
—Alison Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
Other starters include pork trotter and sweetbread roulade with pearl onions and house smoked beef tartare, served with a pickled quail egg and potato chips.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2022
Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
—Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
Slide your trotters into the foot holes (the liners zip out for easy cleaning) and let the machine compress, roll and pummel your lower appendages over the course of a timed 15- or 20-minute cycle.
—Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
One of harness racing’s most esteemed families is hoping for a fifth Hambletonian victory Saturday with trotter Winner’s Bet in the $1-million competition.
—Naaima Abd-Elhameed, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
Signs identify the New England farms where the beef and pork were raised, and though these customers are choosing steaks, Clark’s cases hold cuts and products not often seen in a supermarket — pork brisket, flat iron steak, oxtail, pork trotter and belly, beef tallow, and more.
—Alison Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
Other starters include pork trotter and sweetbread roulade with pearl onions and house smoked beef tartare, served with a pickled quail egg and potato chips.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2022
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First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Trotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trotter. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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trotter
noun
trot·ter
ˈträt-ər 
: one that trots
especially
: a standardbred horse trained for harness racing
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