gallop

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Most people didn't like getting too close to prisoner escorts, no, but leaving at a gallop was a rather extreme reaction.

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  1. noun A natural three-beat gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride.
  2. noun A fast running motion of other quadrupeds.
  3. noun A ride taken at a gallop.

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  • But although going at a gallop, they do not get over much ground; being every now and then compelled to pull up--meeting obstructions they had not reckoned upon. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • But life and death were upon the issue, and the spur must be plied without remorse A long cruel gallop--would it never come to an end I would the steed never tire? —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
  • From this he's been putting his animal to speed; gone in a gallop, as the stretch between the tracks show. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • Then hears his own name called out, a shriek succeeding; the horse wheeled round, and away, as if Satan had hold of his tail For a long time is heard the tramp of the retreating horse going in full fast gallop--gradually less distinct--at length dying away in the distance CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR To Clancy there is nothing strange in Darke's sudden and terrified departure. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • He will get them into a gallop, and ride my poor comrade down. —  The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
 

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  1. From Middle English galopen, to go at a gallop, from Old French galoper, of Germanic origin; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also gallup, galop; from Middle English galopen (= Dutch galopperen = Middle High German galopieren, German galoppiren = Danish galoppere = Swedish galoppera), from Old French galoper, French galoper (= Provencal galaupar = Spanish Portuguese galopar = Italian galoppare, after F.), a variant, with the usual change of initial w to g (gu), of Old French waloper, later Middle English walopen, English wallop, gallop, literally boil, the sound made by a horse galloping being apparently likened to the boiling of a pot: see wallop, of which gallop is a doublet. The usual deriv. from “Gothic (Moesogothic) gahlaupan, to leap,” is absurd; a Gothic (Moesogothic) *gahlaupan does not exist, and the rare and poetical Anglo-Saxon form gehleápan is transitive.
  2. = Dutch galop = German galopp = Danish galop = Swedish galopp, from Old French and F. galop = Spanish Portuguese galope = Italian galoppo; from the verb.
 

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