canter, lope
(noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
jog, trot, lope
(noun) a slow pace of running
lope
(verb) run easily
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
(obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
lope (plural lopes)
An easy pace with long strides.
• LEPO, Pole, olpe, pleo-, pole
Source: Wiktionary
Lope, imp.
Definition: of Leap. [Obs.] And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.
Lope, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loped; p. pr. & vb. n. Loping.] Etym: [See Leap.]
1. To leap; to dance. [Prov. Eng.] "He that lopes on the ropes." Middleton.
2. To move with a lope, as a horse. [U.S.]
Lope, n.
1. A leap; a long step. [Prov. Eng.]
2. An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. [U.S.] The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a crade. T. B. Thorpe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 November 2024
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
