Crossword clues for gallop
gallop
- Horse's motion
- Go full tilt
- Racehorse's gait
- Racehorse gait
- Fast gait
- Zippy clip
- Speed on
- Rapid pace for a horse
- Mustang's rate of speed, at times
- More than a canter
- It's faster than a canter
- Hurry (on horseback?)
- Horse’s gait
- Horse's fast pace
- Headlong racehorse gait
- Faster than a canter
- Fast run
- Certain racehorse gait
- A rapid rate of going
- Hurry on horseback
- A fast gait of a horse
- A two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
- Horse's gait
- Yonkers no-no
- Move very fast
- Operation on cheek for career
- Fastest pace for a horse
- Fast ride
- Fast equine pace
- Proceed at great speed
- Bitterness with operation, move fast
- Bitterness over work and career
- Race pace
- Horse gait
- Horse pace
- Bounding gait
- Run fast
- Horse's run
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallop \Gal"lop\, v. t. To cause to gallop.
Gallop \Gal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Galloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Galloping.] [OE. galopen, F. galoper, of German origin; cf. assumed Goth. ga-hlaupan to run, OHG. giloufen, AS. gehle['a]pan to leap, dance, fr. root of E. leap, and a prefix; or cf. OFlem. walop a gallop. See Leap, and cf. 1st Wallop.]
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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.
--Donne. To ride a horse at a gallop.
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Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
--Locke.
Gallop \Gal"lop\, n. [Cf. F. galop. See Gallop, v. i., and cf. Galop.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"move or run by leaps," early 15c., from Old French galoper "to gallop" (12c.), central Old French form of Old North French waloper, probably from Frankish *wala hlaupan "to run well" (see wallop). Related: Galloped; galloping. Though the French word is Germanic, Dutch galopperen, German galoppiren, Swedish galoppera are from French.
"a leaping gait," the most rapid movement of a horse, 1520s, from gallop (v.).
Wiktionary
n. The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. vb. 1 (Intransitive. Of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop. 2 To ride at a galloping pace. 3 To cause to gallop. 4 To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines. 5 To run very fast.
WordNet
n. a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
v. ride at a galloping pace; "He was galloping down the road"
go at galloping speed; "The horse was galloping along"
cause to move at full gallop; "Did you gallop the horse just now?" [syn: extend]
Wikipedia
, sometimes credited as , is a Japanese animation studio founded in December 1978.
A gallop is an asymmetrical gait at high speeds by quadrupedal organisms such as the gait seen in the horse.
Gallop may also refer to:
- Conductor gallop, wind-induced low frequency oscillation of overhead transmission lines
- Gallop (heavy metal), a metal drum beat typically using a double kick pedal
- Gallop (studio), a Japanese animation studio
- Gallop rhythm, an abnormal heart sound
- Canter a horse gait similar to a gallop
- The Japanese name for the Pokémon Rapidash
- Armed Police Unit Gallop, a 1991 arcade game
Usage examples of "gallop".
Hazard murmured a few brisk phrases in Absarokee to them and, with a gesture much like a salute, they wheeled their ponies and galloped away.
Then kicking the wounded basket a vicious blow with the toe of his boot, he spun on his heels, leaped on the bare back of the Andalusian stallion, and galloped off in a shower of churned-up sod and pollen spores, coattails flying.
Most of the obstacles had been broken down, and the Ansus galloped up the unobstructed slope, howling victoriously.
As they galloped past Apollyon, the links of the silver net rippled over the demon, curled him in pain, and robbed him of his strength.
When he was given his head, Ascot surged into a gallop that had its usual effect of filling Rossmere with total abandon.
That great black horn rose and fell, lunging with the motion of the gallop, ashimmer with the light of the sun.
Zenghils breastplate and the Atabeg galloped out of range with a shout of mocking laughter.
All through the backstretch, around the turn, and down the homestretch she continued her slow, easy gallop.
Rusher in his Banbury Horn Books, Battledores, Galloping Guide to A, B, C, Primers, Reading Made Easy, Spelling Books, etc.
Still, Batu found it disturbing that any of his men fell, for he did not know a single Shou horseman who could boast of hitting such a distant target from a galloping mount.
We galloped in single file along the narrow track, the blackboy in advance with the packhorse struggling after him, and the pint pots strapped to his saddle rattling against each other.
Then, at the very end of the straight lane, where the alternating brownish red beeches and blackish green spruce appeared very small, and the light green mossy path gleamed up and narrowing met the sky, I saw the galloping beast approaching.
Jumping into the cart again, and leaving the dead blesbuck to look after itself for the present--not a very safe thing to do in a country where there are so many vultures--John, or rather Jantje, put the horses into a gallop, and away they went at full tear.
The three heroes of Brosna Wood were unable to trot their restless mounts amid that teeming pilgrimage, much less gallop to reach their goal the faster.
Wounded, dying, or dead, lie the brave cannoniers at their guns, officers and men alike hors du combat, while wounded horses gallop wildly back, with bounding caissons, down the gentle declivity, carrying disorder, and further danger, in their mad flight.