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e or local allusion. [Slang] Gag rein (Harness), a rein for drawing the bit upward in the horse's mouth. -- Gag runner (Harness), a loop on the throat latch guiding the gag rein.

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

ubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. Shak.

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.

I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.

Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

The hind leg of a horse.

A horse's thighs. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

a means or way of entrance or of exit. Knowest thou the way to Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.

The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. Shak.

Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse.

A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.

Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison.

A balky horse. Youatt.

A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.

See Genet, a horse.

hich encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.