单词 | four time |
释义 | > as lemmasfour time 30. Dressage. A single completed motion or action of a horse's movement. Now only with preceding numeral, in descriptions of a particular gait according to the number of separate movements of the legs of which it is considered to consist, as two time, three time, four time. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [noun] > step or manoeuvre taught in school > completed manoeuvre time1726 1726 N. B. Farrier's & Horseman's Dict. 429/2 By Time is sometimes understood the Motion of a Horse who observes Measure and Justness in the Manage, or the Interval between two of its Motions: and sometimes, it signifies the Effect of one of the Aids; as, when they say such a Horseman disposes his Horse for the Effects of the Heel, in beginning with one Time of the Legs, and he never runs precipitantly upon his Legs. 1874 tr. E.-J. Marey Animal Mechanism ii. vi. 164 Most of the writers..name them [sc. paces of a horse], according to this rhythm, gallop in two, three, and four time. 1874 tr. E.-J. Marey Animal Mechanism ii. vi. 168 Representation of a horse galloping.—For this representation we will give three attitudes, differing much from each other, corresponding nearly with the three kinds of time found in this pace. 1901 M. H. Hayes Riding & Hunting xi. 233 The trot is a diagonal pace of two time (near fore and off hind, and off fore and near hind). 1990 N. Bartle tr. A. Knopfhart Fund. Dressage i. i. 8 Flying changes, the half-pass at canter and the canter-pirouette can be executed by a horse that canters four-time. 2007 J. Whitaker & I. Whitelaw Horse 157/2 The horse is reined back in regular two-time steps, and then moves forward in four-time. < as lemmas |
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