trippant

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8

Definition of trippant

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
    “[Borne by the late 1737.] Richard Davies, Esq. of Kent, 1833.] Davison, gu. a stag, trippant, or.”
    “Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu.”
    “a buck trippant within an orle […] three bucks trippant […]”

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Etymology

From trip + -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).

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