LOPE

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


Etymology

Verb

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.

Noun

lope (plural lopes)

An easy pace with long strides.

Anagrams

• 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



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