Could someone tell me what is the meaning of the verb "trollop" in this piece of poetry:

"We haven’t a camelty tune of our own
To help us trollop along,
But every neck is a hairy trombone
(Rtt-ta-ta-ta! is a hairy trombone!) "

This extract is from Her Majesty's Servants in the First Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Question

Could someone tell me what is the meaning of the verb "trollop" in this piece of poetry:

"We haven’t a camelty tune of our own 
To help us trollop along, 
But every neck is a hairy trombone 
(Rtt-ta-ta-ta! is a hairy trombone!) "

This extract is from Her Majesty's Servants in the First Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer

This is an old-fashioned verb that is being used to describe their movement. It originally meant that a horse's gait was somewhere between a trot and a gallop, but here it just means that their movement isn't very urgent.

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