[Ads-l] additional sense of derived form (v.i.) of 'fox-trot'

[James Eric Lawson]

Derived sense of v.i. not in OEDO:

Quote: 'fox-trot, v. i. To take the gait known as fox-trot. “My horse
can fox-trot.” Common.'

Source: A word-list from east Alabama, by Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr. 1909.

Note: Reprinted from Dialect notes, vol. 3 (1908-09).

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