"trippant" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry",
          "text": "[Borne by the late 1737.] Richard Davies, Esq. of Kent, 1833.] Davison, gu. a stag, trippant, or.",
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          "text": "Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu.",
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          "text": "a buck trippant within an orle […] three bucks trippant […]",
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        "Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground."
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        "(heraldry) Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground."
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  "word": "trippant"
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