"gallop" Definition

Definitions for the word "gallop" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To ride a horse at a gallop.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To cause to gallop.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
1 fastest pace of a horse etc., with all the feet off the ground together in each stride. 2 ride at this pace. v. (-p-) 1 a (of a horse etc. Or its rider) go at a gallop. B make (a horse etc.) Gallop. 2 read, talk, etc., fast. 3 progress rapidly (galloping inflation). [french: related to *wallop]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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