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clopping

n. The sound or action of something that clops. vb. (present participle of clop English)

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clopping

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clop
  1. v. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground [syn: clump, clunk, plunk]

  2. [also: clopping, clopped]

Usage examples of "clopping".

Roland could hear his bootheels clopping on the sidewalk, however, and could see the shadows they were casting in the light of the display windows.

The floodplain he crossed was walled about with fallen traprock and in the twilight the little desert foxes had come out to sit along the walls silent and regal as icons watching the night come and the doves called from the acacia and then night fell dark as Egypt and there was just the stillness and the silence and the sound of the horses breathing and the sound of their hooves clopping in the dark.

The low clopping of hoofs and the breathing of lancer mounts are the only sound beside the sighing of the breeze that is slowly changing into a cold wind.

Muted sounds that Lorn cannot make out exactly drift across the comparatively low ward-wall, barely audible above the clopping of his mount's hoofs on the white granite stone of the road.

He mounted the beast, kicked and geed it into motion, and began the briskly clopping journey to his hiding place some three kilometers to the northwest.

The old pony meandered along placidly and the clopping of her hooves and the creaking of the two-wheeled cart made an odd sort of music.

The six visitors walked their mounts briskly, the quickstepping hooves of the dwarves’ ponies a sharp counterpoint to the louder clopping of the horses, and shortly they came to the town square.

The six visitors walked their mounts briskly, the quickstepping hooves of the dwarves' ponies a sharp counterpoint to the louder clopping of the horses, and shortly they came to the town square.

With the arrogance and the blood hunger of Gestapos, they slam through the swinging door, their boot heels clopping hard against the tile floor.

For the past few days, the rumbling of wagon wheels and the clopping of hooves had filled every lull in the noisier work of the smithy.