gait
/ɡeɪt/ sustantivo C2En español: zancada, andadura, andares, andar
- 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
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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.
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