dogtrot

noun

1. A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
2. (Southern-US)A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.

   “Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.”

   “The dogtrot was protected from the rain and, because its front and back were open, the Bernoulli principle provided a cooling effect ...”

3. (Southern-US)A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.

   “One Appalachian solution to the problem of adding needed living space to an existing small cabin was the dogtrot, sometimes called the dogrun, possum trot, two pens-and-a-passage, double house, or erroneously the double pen.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To move at the pace of a dogtrot.

   “The stewardess released us like a pack of noisy school kids and I dogtrotted toward the gate.”

adj

1. (Southern-US, not-comparable)Having an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.

   “If America can claim any significant development in log construction, it might be the dogtrot cabin, … Henry Glassie believes that the dogtrot form developed in the southern Tennessee Valley area ...”