dogtrot

plural dogtrots

1. A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
2. Southern USarchitectureA 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.

   1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug

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   The dogtrot was protected from the rain and, because its front and back were open, the Bernoulli principle provided a cooling effect ...

   2007, Allen George Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (Architecture), I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 34

3. Southern USarchitectureA 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.

   2007, Allen George Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (Architecture), I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 33

present singular third person dogtrots · participle present dogtrotting · participle past dogtrotted · past dogtrotted

1. intransitiveTo move at the pace of a dogtrot.

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

   1989, Sue Grafton, "E" is for Evidence (Fiction), Crimeline, →ISBN

1. Southern USnot comparablearchitectureHaving 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 ...

   1977, Charles van Ravenswaay, The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri, reprint edition (History), University of Missouri Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 131