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noun

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.

Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.

verb

Gallop v. t. To cause to gallop.

Gallop v. i. (past & past part. galloped; pres. part. galloping)

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.

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. "Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it."

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Etymology of 'Gallop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gallop" Quotes from Famous Books

... I rode him in his gallop, he ought to win; and that filly of yours is a hummer," said ...

— The Rider in Khaki - A Novel • Nat Gould

... left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop. ...

— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton

... and Miss Lavish began to talk against each other on the subject of Alessio Baldovinetti. Was he a cause of the Renaissance, or was he one of its manifestations? The other carriage was left behind. As the pace increased to a gallop the large, slumbering form of Mr. Emerson was thrown against the chaplain with the regularity ...

— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster

... through the screen of leafless but thickly interlaced branches, a carriage, with all the curtains carefully closed, and drawn by four horses lashed to a gallop, which was rapidly rolling away from them in the distance. The two men whose horses had run away with them had them again under control, and were riding on either side of it—one of them leading the horse that had carried Isabelle and her captor. HE was doubtless mounting ...

— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier

... that the work would not take him more than an hour or two. But unhappily for him, things did not turn out as he expected. On the first morning he took the bullock out to graze, but the animal would not eat; whenever it saw any other cattle passing, it would gallop off to join them, and when the prince had run after it and brought it back, nothing would make it graze quietly; it kept running away in one direction or another with the prince in pursuit. So at last he had to bring it home ...

— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas

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