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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

... 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 the bottom of the car ...

— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

... challenge of drums; loud music struck upon the air. Starting instantly to go to Julia, Noble's left leg first received the electric impulse and crossed his laggard right; but he was no pacer, and thus stumbled upon himself and plunged. Still convulsive, he came headlong before her, and was the only person near who remained unaware that his dispersal of an intervening group had the appearance of extreme unconventionality. ...

— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington

... shouted one of the boys, who was driving a trim-looking bay, and who had crossed the line at the ending of the course second only to a pacer that could "speed like a streak of lightning," as the boys said,—"Hellow, deacon; ain't you going to shake out old shamble-heels, and show us fellows what speed is to-day?" And the merry-hearted chap, son of the principal lawyer of the place, ...

— The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories • W. H. H. Murray

Words linked to "Pacer" : race horse, Equus caballus, racehorse, bangtail