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单词 galloping
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gallopingn.

/ˈɡaləpɪŋ/
Forms: Also 1600s–1800s gallopping.
Etymology: < gallop v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of gallop v.1
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop
wallopingc1440
gallop1523
full gallop1569
gallopinga1616
gallop-rake1653
tantivya1658
stretching gallop1815
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > rapidly > galloping
walloping1686
galloping1890
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 156 I did heare The gallopping of Horse. Who was't came by? View more context for this quotation
a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 93 His [sc. Pegasus'] days of galloping are ended, Unless I with the spur do prick him.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 251 Others fancied that they heard the galloping of horses over their heads.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 101 Galloping about there was..but often the rides were long, weary, and unexciting.

Compounds

attributive as galloping country, galloping sound; galloping sketch n. a sketch of a locality made after a rapid ride through it.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > rough or preliminary
skiagraphy1594
model1613
shadow1656
sketch1668
cartoona1684
schizzo1686
ébauche1722
scratch1752
croquis1805
galloping sketch1834
pochade1846
abbozzo1849
scribbling1863
thumbnail sketch1900
under-drawing1934
bozzetto1935
pensiero1959
1812 R. Wilson Private Diary (1861) I. 110 For the first twelve miles we proceeded slowly, although over very fine galloping country.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iv. 103 There was a distant rustling among the withered leaves, a bouncing or galloping sound on the path.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 232 Even galloping sketches have their uses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

gallopingadj.

/ˈɡaləpɪŋ/
Etymology: < gallop v.1 + -ing suffix2.
a. That gallops, in senses of the verb galloping consumption n. a consumptive disease which makes rapid progress.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adjective] > specific pace of riding
Canterbury pace1636
galloping1642
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adjective] > galloping
walloping?a1400
galloping1642
pounding1904
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xv. 194 For the Italians have a Proverb, that a galloping horse is an open sepulcher.
1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III i. 37 The King..pursued the Duke, not only with a galloping Army, but with Edicts and Prescriptions.
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 130 Having for many months laboured under a Galloping Consumption and made use of diverse Physicians in vain.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3336/4 Stole..a bright bay Mare..a true Yorkshire galloping Breed.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iii. iii. 64 The father in full vigour, the son in a galloping consumption.
figurative.1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 416 No galloping eyes, or the least inattention in their devotion.1770 N. Nicholls Let. 28 Nov. in Corr. Gray & N. Nicholls (1843) 115 What a blessing it is to have a galloping imagination.1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago xxxiv. 324 Ever since they had taken him he had been oppressed by this plague of galloping thought.
b. galloping nun n. (see quot. 1715; Milton's allusion is obscure).
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1641 J. Milton Animadversions 16 Our Liturgie hath run up and downe the world like an English gallopping Nun, proffering her selfe, but wee heare of none yet that bids money for her.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 152 Having espous'd one of the Countessess of Mansfield, who had been a Chanoness or Dame of the Monastery of Girrisheim, a Temporal Religious Pensioner, or what is vulgarly call'd a Galloping-Nun, without any Votes [i.e. vows].
c. Military. galloping carriage = ‘galloper carriage’; see galloper n. 5.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun]
stock1496
carriage1562
sea-carriage1669
gun-carriage1769
devil carriage1794
devil-cart1797
sleigh1797
galloper carriage1802
garrison-carriage1872
galloping carriage1883
1883 Daily News 27 July 2/1 A ‘galloping carriage’ designed by Lord C. Beresford to carry a Nordenfeldt gun.

Compounds

galloping-like adj. Obsolete having the appearance of a good galloper.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adjective] > galloping > looking like a good galloper
galloping-like1711
1711 London Gaz. No. 4839/4 Lost, or Stole..a strait, young, gallopping-like bay Mare.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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