Gallop Definition

găləp

galloped, galloping, gallops

noun

gallops

The fastest gait of a horse or other animal, consisting of a succession of leaping strides with all the feet off the ground at one time.

Webster's New World

A fast running motion of other quadrupeds.

American Heritage

A ride on a galloping animal.

Webster's New World

Any fast pace, speedy action, or rapid progression.

Webster's New World

A disordered rhythm of the heart characterized by three or four distinct heart sounds in each cycle and resembling the sound of a galloping horse.

American Heritage Medicine

verb

galloped, galloping, gallops

To cause to gallop.

Webster's New World

To go at a gallop.

Webster's New World

To move, progress, or act very fast; hurry.

Webster's New World

To ride at a galloping pace.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Gallop

Noun

Singular:

gallop

Plural:

gallops

Origin of Gallop

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 *hlaupaną (“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.

From Wiktionary
From Middle English galopen to go at a gallop from Old French galoper of Germanic origin wel-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition