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noun

pacer n.

One who, or that which, paces.

Especially: A horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together; a horse that paces.

A horse used to set the pace in racing.

Synonyms: pacemaker, pacesetter.

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Etymology of 'Pacer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pacer" Quotes from Famous Books

... flowing hair, sparkling rows of teeth, She steps as light as the pacer, lest she soil her hoof ...

— Lucky Pehr • August Strindberg

... on two wheels and single harness every now and then letting us get abreast of him, and then shooting ahead like an arrow from a bow. A few trials showed us the struggle was useless: we had to deal with a regular "pacer," and—as I have elsewhere remarked—their speed is greater than that of any fair trotter, although so fatiguing that they are unable to keep it up for any great distance; but as we had already turned ...

— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

... year 1711 Rip Van Dam, a prominent citizen of New York, and at a later date Governor of the State, wrote to Jonathan Dickinson, an early mayor of Philadelphia, a very amusing account of his ownership of a Narragansett Pacer. The horse was shipped from Rhode Island in a sloop, from which he managed to jump overboard, swim ashore, and return home. He was, however, again placed on board ship, and arrived in New York after a fourteen-days' passage, ...

— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

... (probablydie noni) med malo statod.-Only individual words admit of being understood with certainty; it is especially noteworthy that forms, which we have hitherto known only as Umbrian and Oscan, like the adjective -pacer- and the particle -einom with the value of -et, here probably ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

Words linked to "Pacer" : race horse, pacesetter, bangtail, pace, horse, Equus caballus