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单词 gallop
释义 gallop
 —galloper,  n.  
 /gal"euhp/,  v.i.  
  1. to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
  2. to run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.
  3. to go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.
  v.t.  
  4. to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.
  n.  
  5. a fast gait of the horse or other quadruped in which, in the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground at once.
  6. a run or ride at this gait.
  7. a rapid rate of going.
  8. a period of going rapidly.
 [1375-1425; late ME galopen (v.) < OF galoper < Frankish *wala hlaupan to run well (see WELL1, LEAP) or, alternatively, v. deriv. of *walhlaup, equiv. to *wal battlefield (c. OHG wal; see VALKYRIE) + *hlaup run, course (deriv. of the v.)]
 Syn. 3. run, rush, dash, speed, fly, scoot.
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