Longe Definition

lunj
longed, longeing, longing
noun
A long rope fastened to a horse's head and held by the trainer, who causes the horse to move around in a circle.
Webster's New World
The use of the longe in training horses.
Webster's New World
verb
To put (a horse) through its paces, using a longe.
Webster's New World

(US) To work a horse in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.

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Other Word Forms of Longe

Noun

Singular:
longe
Plural:
longes

Origin of Longe

  • From French allonger (“to lengthen"), or Latin longa (“long").

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Longe Sentence Examples

  • And those that lye in a close under a hedge haue longe heare and thyck, and they will neuer pylle nor be bare; and by this reason the husbande maye kepe twyse so many catell as he did before.

  • Briggs assisted Robert Napier in the editing of the " posthumous work," the Constructio, and in the account he gives of the alteration of the logarithms in the Arithmetica of 1624 he seems to have been more anxious that justice should be done to Napier than to himself; while on the other hand Napier received Briggs most hospitably and refers to him as " amico mihi longe charissimo."

  • Euery man we wyll not fro you go Tyll ye haue done this vyage longe.

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