pacer

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From pace +‎ -er.

pacer (plural pacers)

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. A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).

From the brand name Pacer.

pacer (plural pacers)

1. (Australia) A mechanical pencil.

• Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pacer (accessed: April 07, 2007).

• caper, crape, recap

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese pascer), from Latin pāscere, present active infinitive of pāscō (compare Spanish pacer).

pacer (first-person singular present pazo, first-person singular preterite pacín, past participle pacido)

1. to graze, to pasture

• pasto
• pastor
• pastura

pācer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pācō

Inherited from Old Spanish pasçer, from Latin pāscere, pāscō, from Proto-Italic *pāskō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /paˈθeɾ/ [paˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /paˈseɾ/ [paˈseɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: pa‧cer

pacer (first-person singular present pazco, first-person singular preterite pací, past participle pacido)

1. to graze, to pasture
2. to put out to pasture
3. to eat away, to nibble, to gnaw

• “pacer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28