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单词 to ride gallop
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to ride (a) gallop
a. The most rapid movement of a horse (occasionally of other quadrupeds), in which in the course of each stride the animal is entirely off the ground, with the legs flexed under the body. In early use chiefly adverbial. †to ride (a) gallop: now at (formerly also on, upon, in, with) a gallop.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride rapidly > at a gallop
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gallop1523
to ride (a) gallop1523
coursea1533
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
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adverb] > at a gallop
a (also the) great wallopa1375
agallop1548
at (formerly also on, upon, in, with) a gallop1645
ventre à terre1848
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxi. 83 The frenchmen euer rode a great Galoppe towarde the bridge.
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. v. f. 94v He caused them put spores to their horses, and passed forwardes a gallop.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oii/2 A Gallop, extensus cursus.
1600 J. Lane Tom Tel-Troths Message (1876) 126 The first rides gallop into miserie.
1645 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 176 Our horse, upon a Gallop wth out once drawing up, advanceth toward ym.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6228/3 He goes in a little Gallop very easy.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. ii. 97 He..rode a full Gallop.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 87 That trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rein.
1814 S. Rogers in Mem. T. Moore (1856) VIII. 186 Our horses were almost always in a gallop.
1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry ii. 16 The gallop to be eleven miles an hour.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ii. 246 He was again hurrying on at the same furious gallop, which had been his pace when the locksmith first encountered him.
1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 29 If an object fired at be moving, whether it be a man walking or a horse at a gallop.
1893 E. Muybridge Descr. Zoopraxogr. 37 The gallop is the most rapid method of quadrupedal motion; in its action the feet are independently brought to the ground; the spring into the air as in the canter is effected from a fore foot, and the landing upon the diagonal hind foot.
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