gallop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”).
More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.
Inflected forms:
form: gallops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gallops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: galloping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: galloped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: galloped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
pos: noun
gloss: An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
pos: noun
examples: Charlie and Marnie fought at brunch and then confessed their undying love for each other; Ray got promoted by his coffee-shop boss and then dumped by his croissant-purse-toting girlfriend; and Hannah, with a deadline looming, her OCD blaring, and all her friends elsewhere, desperately FaceTimed Adam—who took a shirtless, rom-commy gallop across Brooklyn to meet her.
gloss: An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
pos: noun
gloss: A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.
pos: noun
examples: A gallop rhythm:
\drums{\repeat unfold4{wbl8wbh16 16
gloss: To run at a gallop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The horse galloped past the finishing line.
gloss: To ride at a galloping pace.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Gallop lively down the western hill.
gloss: To cause to gallop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to gallop a horse
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To run very fast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the 11th minute the German won possession in midfield and teed up the galloping Kieran Gibbs, whose angled shot was pushed by Kelvin Davies straight into the retreating Jos Hooiveld.
gloss: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]
gloss: To progress rapidly through the body.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: Canterbury gallop
Gallipoli gallop
Gish gallop
hand gallop
agallop
galloper
gallopingly
outgallop
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