A good trotter.
1854. He made the old man give him a fast horse, and a pinter dog, and a gun, all kivered with silver plates, and then he rid, and hunted, and courted.—H. H. Riley, ‘Puddleford,’ pp. 124–5 (N.Y.).
1857. How I longed for a dashing American cutter, with a span of fast horses!—Bayard Taylor, ‘Northern Travel,’ p. 155. (N.E.D.)
