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▪ I. tripple, n. S. Africa.|ˈtrɪp(ə)l|
[f. tripple v.2]
A horse's gait, resembling the amble.
1880Gillmore On Duty 296 A slow tripple—a pace similar to what is designated ‘racking’ in North America. 1887Rider Haggard Jess (1899) 4 He put the tired nag into a sort of ‘tripple’ or ambling canter much affected by S. African horses. 1901Field 9 Mar. 322/1 This ‘tripple’ is between a fast walk and slow trot.
▪ II. ˈtripple, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[freq. of trip v. + -le 3.]
intr. To trip, move lightly; to dance, skip.
c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §308 (1810) 315 Where, fearless of the hunt, the deer securely stood, And trippling freely, walk'd a burgess of the wood. 1851W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 42 (E.D.D.) He trippled, he danced, an' he sung.
▪ III. ˈtripple, v.2 S. Africa.
[a. Du. trippelen, f. trippen to trip, skip.]
intr. To go at a tripple.
1899G. H. Russell Under the Sjambok iv. 49 They [Boers]..getting into their saddles, slowly trippled away (a kind of run, neither gallop, canter, or trot). 1903Longm. Mag. Dec. 151 That easy hand canter usual in such Free State horses as do not tripple.
Hence ˈtrippling vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˈtrippler, a horse that tripples.
1901Field 9 Mar. 322/1 The Boer never rides his horse at the trot, but at a quick walk or canter, and a step peculiar to the country and called ‘trippling’, or, as we should style it, ambling. 1905Blackw. Mag. Oct. 526/1 He could still hear the trippling patter of the other rider. 1909R. Cullum Compact xi. 132 Can't I even persuade you to ride my ‘tripler’? |