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/pˈeɪsər/ Listen

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

... come, don't be hard on the old veteran! He's down, old Beau is, sence the time he owned his blooded pacer and dined with the Corps Diplomatique; Beau's down sence then; but don't call the old feller hard names. We take it back, don't we?—we take ...

— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

... 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