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gait

/ɡeɪt/ verb C2
  1. To teach a specific gait to a horse. (transitive)

He/she/it gaits · Past gaited · Past participle gaited · -ing form gaiting

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Verb forms

Base form
gait
He/she/it
gaits
Past
gaited
Past participle
gaited
-ing form
gaiting

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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?”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 83 · B2
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.
The Jungle Book, p. 71 · B2
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.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 46 · B2
The boy went off with a curious, shambling gait which told my surgical eyes that he was suffering from a weak spine.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 65 · B2

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