Verb
- (literally) To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.
- (idiomatic) To test several or all functions or training of a person, animal, machine, etc.
- The new fire chief really put us through our paces, we had to wash all the fire trucks and then had two different fire drills.
- When I test drove the new car, the salesman let me take it out to the freeway to put it through its paces.
