Trotters (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Trotters

Feet. To shake one’s trotters at Bilby’s ball, where the sheriff pays the fiddlers; perhaps the Bilboes ball, i.e. the ball of fetters: fetters and stocks were anciently called the bilboes.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Trot * To Trounce

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