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Gallop

noun

A fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

verb

(past & past part. galloped; pres. part. galloping)

Ride at a galloping pace.

Go at galloping speed.

Cause to move at full gallop. Synonym: extend.

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"Gallop" Quotes from Famous Books

... own horse and guided the young girl for half an hour at full gallop; making turns and half turns, and striking into wood-paths, so as to confuse their traces, until they reached a ...

— An Historical Mystery • Honore de Balzac

... and surprise saw two horsemen begin to gallop towards him, as if to ride him down. Happily he was close to a narrow archway leading to an alley down which no war-horse could possibly make its way, and dashing into it and round a corner, he eluded his pursuers, and reached the bank of the river, whence, being by this time experienced in the ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... over the French cavalry came down at a furious gallop, and for a time all was confusion. Then the rifles, throwing themselves among the vineyards and behind the walls, opened a heavy fire. The French general in command of the cavalry was killed, with a number of his troops, and the rest of the cavalry fell back. A regiment ...

— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty

... put her pony into a brisk gallop, and I followed suit, and caught up with her. And I was a little moved and troubled by what she had said. For it seemed to me as if she had said it of me alone, and that the inclusion of Evelyn in that delayed and hanging fire "both" of her ...

— We Three • Gouverneur Morris

... aimed or better seconded by the temper of his blade, for it cut away part of Bruhier's helmet, and with it his ear and part of his cheek. Ogier, seeing the blood, did not immediately repeat his blow, and Bruhier seized the moment to gallop off at one side. As he rode he took a vase of gold which hung at his saddle-bow, and bathed with its contents the wounded part. The blood instantly ceased to flow, the ear and the flesh were restored quite whole, and the Dane was astonished ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

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