Gallop

Word GALLOP
Character 6
Hyphenation gal lop
Pronunciations /ˈɡæləp/

Definitions and meanings of "Gallop"

What do we mean by gallop?

A gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride. noun

A fast running motion of other quadrupeds. noun

A ride taken at a gallop. noun

A rapid pace. noun

A disordered rhythm of the heart characterized by three or four distinct heart sounds in each cycle and resembling the sound of a galloping horse. noun

To cause to gallop. intransitive verb

To go or move at a gallop. intransitive verb

To move or progress swiftly. intransitive verb

A leaping or springing gait or movement of horses (or other quadrupeds), in which the two fore feet are lifted from the ground in succession, and then the two hind feet in the same succession. noun

A ride at a gallop; the act of riding an animal on the gallop. noun

A kind of dance. See galop. noun

To move or run by leaps, as a horse; run with steady and more or less rapid springs. See the noun.

To ride a horse that is running; ride at a running pace.

To move very fast; scamper.

To cause to gallop: as, he galloped his horse all the way.

To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed. intransitive verb

To ride a horse at a gallop. intransitive verb

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. intransitive verb

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. noun

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Gallop

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The word "gallop" in example sentences

In order to avoid that risk again, the jockey would have Spread the Word gallop for a mile or two before a race so as to exhaust it. ❋ John Partington (2010)

An ambitious and fearless gallop from the jungles of Africa via a shocking encounter on a Nigerian beach to the media offices of London and domesticity in leafy suburbia ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

In charging, I had noticed how they had opened their ranks at the canter and then closed them at the gallop, which isn't easy; now they were doing the same thing as they retired towards the Heights, and I thought, these fellows ain't so slovenly as we thought. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

It can be either and a gallop is a "no-no" in a harness race. ❋ Cosmo7 (2009)

The only other pace is a hard gallop, which is the best; you go like the wind over prairie and valley, up and down hill, all the same. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Charging at the gallop was the one thing the cavaliers did well from the start of the war, he remembered. ❋ Price, Anthony (1976)

Most people didn't like getting too close to prisoner escorts, no, but leaving at a gallop was a rather extreme reaction. ❋ Ann Wilson (N/A)

It cheered one up in the storm, and the lilt of it kept time to the leaping kind of gallop which is the easiest way to run on snowshoes: "Bye, baby bunting; bye, baby bunting -- Hello!" ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

Another thing: cavalry can trot away from anything, and a gallop is a gait unbecoming a soldier, unless he is going toward the enemy. ❋ Unknown (1903)

[Page 265] hard gallop, which is the best; you go like the wind over prairie and valley, up and down hill, all the same. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)

I were given to sentiment, I should say her gallop was the poetry of motion. ❋ William Alexander Fraser (1896)

The shouts of the English soldiers on seeing the stag gallop by was the first sign the French had of the propinquity of their foes. ❋ Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 (1893)

An experienced hunting man remarked to me that a large number of ladies who hunt, fail in ability to make their horses gallop, which is a pace never taught by riding masters. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)

Then they were allowed to ease down into a walk, until they got their wind again; and then started at the pace, half canter, half gallop, which is the usual rate of progression of the colonial horses. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Basically the gallop is a was to take tremolo picking and make it sound more ... jumpy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Onward they tore, faster and faster still, until their gallop was a race of unchained demons, their shouts the shrieks of souls in mortal agony; onward they plunged amid a storm of bullets that rattled on casque and breastplate, on buckle and scabbard, with a sound like hail; into the bosom of that hailstorm flashed that thunderbolt beneath which the earth shook and trembled, leaving behind it, as it passed, an odor of burned woolen and the exhalations of wild beasts. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

"the amble" and "the rack," or whether the walk, the trot, and the gallop are their only natural gaits. ❋ Unknown (1888)

She came towards him at a kind of gallop and held out the hand that was encumbered with the umbrella and handbag. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 (1963)

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