pacer
nounEtymology From pace + -er.
1
One who paces.
2
In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.
3
Archaic A horse whose natural gait is a pace (where the legs of the same side are lifted together).
- And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain. Time with me goes slow. — "Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain," But that grief is heavy I know.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 175:
4
A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).
5
A timer in an electric toothbrush that indicates how long the user should spend brushing in each part of the mouth.
- Derived terms
- medium pacer, Narragansett pacer