Crossword clues for amble
amble
- Better to avoid extremes — take gentle stroll
- Do in th' blasted Lambeth Walk!
- Take it easy
- Wander around
- Walk casually
- Leisurely stroll
- Carefree walk
- Walk aimlessly
- Walk unhurriedly
- Gait between walk and canter
- Walk nonchalantly
- Shuffle along
- One way to walk
- Walk easily
- Take a walk
- Slow gait
- Move along slowly
- Take it slow
- Go slow
- Don't hurry
- Walk, as in the park
- Walk at a leisurely pace
- Stroll slowly
- Stroll leisurely
- Relaxing walk
- Hardly hurry
- Go for a stroll
- Walk at an easy pace
- Walk at a slow, easy pace
- Walk at a gentle pace
- Take a leisurely walk
- Go easy
- Go at a slow, easy pace
- Easygoing pace
- Carefree pace
- An easy pace
- Meander
- Easy pace
- Stroll along
- Promenade
- Mosey along
- Easy gait
- Walk about
- Walk leisurely
- Saunter along
- Mosey (along)
- Go unhurriedly
- Easy jaunt
- Walk in the park, say
- Enjoy a constitutional
- Many a nature walk
- A leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- Padnag
- Walk slowly
- Proceed leisurely
- Take time to smell the flowers
- Single-foot
- Relaxed walk
- Leisurely pace
- Slow pace
- Gentle progress of doctor overcome by beer
- Move slowly shifting blame
- Move at an easy pace
- Mosey along, initially attracting mockery by the French
- Male buried in powerful drift
- Chance to forgo start of gruelling walk
- Walker's nude walk
- Walk before 12 ran briefly
- Leisurely walk
- Risk taking top off for walk
- Proceed slowly and don't start to take risks
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amble \Am"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Ambling.] [F. ambler to amble, fr. L. ambulare to walk, in LL., to amble, perh. fr. amb-, ambi-, and a root meaning to go: cf. Gr. ? to go, E. base. Cf. Ambulate.]
To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.
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To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.
The skipping king, he ambled up and down.
--Shak.Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.
--Shak.
Amble \Am"ble\, n.
A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. ``A fine easy amble.''
--B. Jonson.A movement like the amble of a horse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Old French ambler "walk as a horse does," from Latin ambulare "to walk, to go about, take a walk," perhaps a compound of ambi- "around" (see ambi-) and -ulare, from PIE root *el- "to go" (cognates: Greek ale "wandering," alaomai "wander about;" Latvian aluot "go around or astray"). Until 1590s used only of horses or persons on horseback. Related: Ambled; ambling. As a noun, from late 14c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll. 2 An easy gait, especially that of a horse (as above). vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. 2 (context intransitive English) Of a horse: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.
WordNet
n. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) [syn: promenade, ramble, saunter, stroll, perambulation]
v. walk leisurely [syn: mosey]
Wikipedia
Amble is a town, civil parish and seaport on the North Sea coast of Northumberland, England. It lies at the mouth of the River Coquet, and the nearby Coquet Island is visible from its beaches and harbour. The civil parish is called Amble by the Sea, and in 2001 had a population of 6,044, reducing slightly to 6,025 at the 2011 Census.
Amble is a seaport town on the North Sea coast in Northumberland, England.
Amble may also refer to:
- Amble, Michigan, a small village in the U.S. state of Michigan
- Chapel Amble, a small hamlet in Cornwall, England
- Lars Amble (born 1938), Swedish actor and director
- Ambling gaits, any of a number of four-beat intermediate gaits for horses, faster than a walk but usually slower than a canter or gallop
- Michele Bachmann (born 1956 as Michele Amble), American politician
Usage examples of "amble".
The horses began to amble again, this time a little faster, as if they knew there had almost been trouble and wanted to leave the place of it behind.
And they were still more astonished when they saw him amble over to them when he reached the ground.
Abraham Amble had been lord of his wife in the water, but his innings was over.
Her tear continued to grow, eventually gaining enough weight to amble down her cheek.
The ka-tet ambled back toward the rectory, riding four abreast, feeling every town eye that watched them go: death on horseback.
His head was still bowed as he edged away from her and ambled down a narrow passageway.
Puzzling over this farmhold, surely the strangest he had seen, Taran drew closer, dismounted, and as he did so a tall figure ambled from the shed and made his way toward the companions.
As they ambled along, Taran caught his foot on a jutting edge of stone and he tumbled head over heels.
Some of the other cabbies and hustlers had ambled over to see what was happening.
She ambled away from the door to give the dried-out bodies a closer look.
She started to wave to the detective but a cluster of people ambled between them and she lost sight of him.
Pitts watched me for a few minutes, then picked up a bucket and ambled into the ladies room, his motives unknown.
Camps were hurriedly struck and horses saddled, then the entire forceeight thousand Ravensbundmen and three thousand Acharitesfell into file behind the great bear as she ambled along, grunting to herself and occasionally pausing to scratch the ruff of her neck.
She rose and stretched, her grunts waking the entire camp, and ambled towards the forest.
Carrying three of the children, Nila the elephant ambled past with her trunk curled around a bundle of hay.