trippant

Etymology

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

adj

  1. (heraldry) 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. 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry
    Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu. 1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald, page 82
    a buck trippant within an orle […] three bucks trippant […] 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 349

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