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Definition of Pacer
1. Noun. A horse used to set the pace in racing.
Generic synonyms: Bangtail, Race Horse, Racehorse
Derivative terms: Pace
2. Noun. A horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together.
Definition of Pacer
1. n. One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.
Definition of Pacer
1. Noun. (rail transport) A British lightweight railbus diesel multiple unit of class 140, 141, 142, 143 or 144. ¹
2. Noun. One who paces. ¹
3. Noun. A breed of horse used in harness races. ¹
4. Noun. Short for pacemaker. ¹
5. Noun. (Australian) A mechanical pencil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pacer
1. a horse whose gait is a pace [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacer
Literary usage of Pacer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"CHAPTER VI THE AMERICAN TROTTER AND Pacer The history of the English trotting
horse goes back for several centuries. About Norfolk and Yorkshire trotters ..."
2. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"CHAPTER VII THE Pacer The ancestry of the pacer does not differ from that of the
... Jay-Eye-See was first a trotter at 2.10 and later a pacer at 2.05\. ..."
3. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"THE AMERICAN Pacer AND HIS RELATIONS TO THE AMERICAN TROTTER. ... Blue Bull—The
pacer forces himself into publicity— Higher rate of speed—Pacing races very ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"For instance, Direct, 2:05|, of the Dictator family is a pacer and has sired
forty-two pacers and thirty- seven trotters. He sired Direct Hal p., 2:04J, ..."
5. Outing (1893)
"HE history of the pacer is at once a romance and a reality. ... So rare did the
pacer become in England, that when the gait was described to a prominent ..."
6. Life with the Trotters by John Splan (1889)
"The pacer Johnston, and the manner in which he was trained to beat all the ...
I now come to the consideration of the fastest pacer that the world has ever ..."
7. Life with the Trotters by John Splan (1889)
"Tb* pacer Johnston, and the manner in which be was trained to beat all the ...
I now come to the consideration of the fastest pacer that the world has ever ..."
8. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"... pacer, which it would seem have some claims to be considered pure races,
besides several of the coarser breeds already noticed—the ..."
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