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Lope   /loʊp/   Listen
verb
Lope  v. i.  (past & past part. loped; pres. part. loping)  
1.
To leap; to dance. (Prov. Eng.) "He that lopes on the ropes."
2.
To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse. (U.S.)
3.
To run with an easy, bounding stride; of people.



Lope  past  Of Leap. (Obs.) "And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser."



noun
Lope  n.  
1.
A leap; a long step. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. (U.S.) "The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope,... a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle."






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"Lope" Quotes from Famous Books



... prehistoric bawling cry, and with one mind the herd began to center, rushing with menacing swiftness, like warriors answering their chieftain's call for aid. With awkward lope or jolting trot, snorting with fury they hastened to the rescue, only to meet in blind bewildered mass, swirling to and fro in search of an imaginary cause ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... his horse and rode back, wondering where she could have spent the night. Halfway through Rock City the footprints ended abruptly, and Lone turned back, riding down the trail at a lope. She couldn't have gone far, he reasoned, and if she had been out all night in the rain, with no better shelter than Rock City afforded, she would need help,—"and lots of it, and pretty darn quick," ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

... at least a curious coincidence in literary history, that, as Cervantes, driven from the stage of Madrid by the success of Lope de Vega, threw himself into prose romance, and produced, at the moment when the world considered him as silenced forever, the Don Quixote which has outlived Lope's two thousand triumphant dramas—so Scott, abandoning verse to Byron, should have ...
— Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) • John Gibson Lockhart

... the Adelantamiento de Cazorla, with towns like Baza, Niebla, and Alcaraz. And besides the kings there is a great deal to be said about the nobles, great princes who showed their generosity to the Holy Metropolitan Church. Don Lope de Haro, Lord of Vizcaya, not content with paying the cost of the building from the Puerta de los Escribanos as far as the choir, gave us the town of Alcubilete, with its mills and fisheries, and he also left a legacy so that in the choir when complines are sung, ...
— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... beyond the sea?—was it some, or all of these united, that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate? And is it possible that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of lope? Is it possible, that from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy, not so much of admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, a reality so important, a promise yet to be fulfilled so ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick


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