Gallop /(?)/
Gal·lop
Gallop
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Galloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Galloping
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To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
But gallop lively down the western hill.
- To ride a horse at a gallop.
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Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
Gallop
v. t.
- To cause to gallop.
Gallop
n.
- A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
Phrases & Compounds
- Hand gallop
- a slow or gentle gallop.