dogtrot
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Is dogtrot a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture, Southern US) A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.Examples: "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 ..."Southern-US
2. (architecture, Southern US) A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.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."Southern-US
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move at the pace of a dogtrot.Examples: "The stewardess released us like a pack of noisy school kids and I dogtrotted toward the gate."intransitive
adj (English)
1. (architecture, Southern US) Having an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.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 ..."Southern-USnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary