GALLOPER

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who, or that which, gallops.

2.
n.

A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.


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