gait
/ɡeɪt/ noun C2- A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs. · Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.
- One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either naturally or as a result of training.
Plural gaits
From the library
Think of dressing every day for dinner, of making half a dozen calls in an afternoon—with a policeman at every corner ready to jump into your auto and take you to the station, if you get up any greater speed than a donkey cart’s gait.
It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage.
A Fox asked him, “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?”
The door opened to admit a thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.
Other matches
Learn gait in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.