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gallop
English
Etymology
From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æl?p/
- Homophone: Gallup
Noun
gallop (plural gallops)
- The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
- An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
Derived terms
- Gish gallop
Translations
Verb
gallop (third-person singular simple present gallops, present participle galloping, simple past and past participle galloped)
- (intransitive, of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
- (intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
- Gallop lively down the western hill.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
- (transitive) To cause to gallop.
- (transitive, intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To run very fast.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
- Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
- 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
- Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]
- (intransitive, of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.
Translations
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dallop
English
Etymology
Origin unknown. Perhaps cognate with Norwegian dialect dolp, a lump.
Noun
dallop (plural dallops)
- (obsolete, East Anglia and Essex) A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of dollop. [15th–18th c.]
References
- Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary?[2], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 116, "dollop", sense 4.
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