GALLOP

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed. But gallop lively down the western hill. Donne.

2.
v.

To ride a horse at a gallop.

3.
v.

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. Locke.

4.
v.

To cause to gallop.

5.
n.

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. Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.

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