dogtrot

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.

2. 2

   A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.

   • Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.
   • The dogtrot was protected from the rain and, because its front and back were open, the Bernoulli principle provided a cooling effect ...
3. 3

   A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.

   • One Appalachian solution to the problem of adding needed living space to an existing small cabin was the dogtrot, sometimes called the dogrun, possum trot, two pens-and-a-passage, double house, or erroneously the double pen.
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   1. 4

      To move at the pace of a dogtrot.

      • The stewardess released us like a pack of noisy school kids and I dogtrotted toward the gate.
   2. 5

      Having an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.

      • If America can claim any significant development in log construction, it might be the dogtrot cabin, … Henry Glassie believes that the dogtrot form developed in the southern Tennessee Valley area ...

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