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plural dogtrots
A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog. examples
(architecture, Southern US) A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house. quotations examples
Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.
1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
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, page 34
(architecture, Southern US) A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. quotations examples
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, page 33
third-person singular simple present dogtrots, present participle dogtrotting, simple past and past participle dogtrotted
To move at the pace of a dogtrot quotations examples
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
comparative more dogtrot, superlative most dogtrot
(architecture, Southern US) The design or form of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house quotations examples
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, page 131