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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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hobble
English
Etymology
From Middle English hobblen, hobelen, akin to Middle Dutch hoblen, hobbelen (Modern Dutch hobbelen).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?b?l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
hobble (plural hobbles)
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
- A difficult situation; a scrape.
- (dialect, Britain and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
Synonyms
- tether (rope)
Translations
Verb
hobble (third-person singular simple present hobbles, present participle hobbling, simple past and past participle hobbled)
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold
- you hobble your old horse and turn him grazing
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- (figuratively) To move roughly or irregularly.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone
- To perplex; to embarrass.
Synonyms
- (walk unevenly): hirple
Derived terms
- hobble skirt
- hobbly
- unhobble
Translations
Anagrams
- hobbel
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