gallop
/ˈɡæləp/ verb C2- To run at a gallop. · The horse galloped past the finishing line.
- To ride at a galloping pace.
- To cause to gallop. · to gallop a horse
- To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
- To run very fast.
- To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
- To progress rapidly through the body.
He/she/it gallops · Past galloped · Past participle galloped · -ing form galloping
Verb forms
- Base form
- gallop
- He/she/it
- gallops
- Past
- galloped
- Past participle
- galloped
- -ing form
- galloping
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He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master’s house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could.
The Ass, observing his trepidation at the mere crowing of a Cock summoned courage to attack him, and galloped after him for that purpose.
The quarrel proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.
A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: “My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.” On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.”
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