gallop
Speech parts
1. gallop - Noun
2. gallop - Verb
3. Gallop - Proper noun
Meaning
To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
To ride a horse at a gallop.
Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
To cause to gallop.
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.
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A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
When jackass smell corn, ‘im gallop.
The horse never refuses a homeward gallop.
Money makes the horse gallop whether he has shoes or not.