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p) Forms: 6 galop(e, 6- gallop. See also WALLOP v. [a. F. galoper, = Pr. galaupar, Sp. Pg. galopar, It. galoppare. No satisfactory origin has yet been suggested for these forms; the Pr. form suggests that the word may be a compound of the Teut. *hlaup-an to LEAP, run, with some prefixed word. The initial must originally have been w; the OF. *waloper vb., *walop n., have not been found, but their existence is proved by the adopted forms, Flem., MHG. walop n., MHG. walopiren vb., ME. walop n., walope vb. The Eng. verb walope, WALLOP, survived into the 16th c., when it was superseded by the present verb, app. a new adoption from F. galoper.
In K. Alis. 461, Weber's ed. reads ‘The deor galopith by wodis side’, following the Lincoln's Inn MS. The earlier Bodl. MS., however, has galpe
. The passage is not in the AF. original by Thomas or Eustace of Kent. The reading of the Bodl. MS. is prob. correct, but perh. the reading of the later MS. may prove that the vb. galope existed in 14-15thc.]
1. intr. Of a horse (occas. of other quadrupeds): to go at a gallop (see GALLOP n. 1).
a1533 LD. BERNERS Huon lv. 185 The horse wold nother trot nor galop.
1570 LEVINS Manip. 169 To Gallop,
fundere gradus. To Wallop,
idem, cursitare.
a1631 DONNE Poems (1633) 137 His steeds will bee restrain'd But gallop lively downe the Westerne hill.
1697 DRYDEN Virg. Georg. III. 148 Fearing to be seen, The Leacher gallop'd from his Jealous Queen.
1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4382/4 Stolen or strayed..a bright bay Gelding..4 Years old past, walks, trots, gallops, and leaps.
1835 W. IRVING Tour Prairies 159 They had also seen a fine wild horse, which, however, had galloped off with a speed that defied pursuit.
b. trans. To pursue or chase at a gallop. Obs. [So F. galoper.]
1580 BLUNDEVIL Horsemanship I. (1609) 7 To gallop the bucke, or followe a long winged Hawke.
fig. 1626 T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 112 A thousand Princes, and phantastique great Ladies, haue galloped Honour vpon the full speed.
c. Racing. to gallop to a standstill: to tire out.
1892 Daily News 2 Mar. 3/6 Silvercrown..a celebrated racehorse..having galloped eighteen horses to a standstill for the Crawford Plate at Newmarket in 1886.
2. intr. Of a horseman: To ride at full speed. Also with advs., as forth, in, off.
1523 LD. BERNERS Froiss. I. cxl. 69b, He dasshed his spurres to his horse, and galoped forth in suche wyse that his kepars loste him.
1568 GRAFTON Chron. I. vii 186 She and her Gentlewoman..galoped thorough the Towne.
1599 SHAKES. Hen. V,
IV. vii. 89 Yet a many of your horsemen peere And gallop ore the field.
1724 DE FOE Mem. Cavalier (1840) 140 The scouts came galloping in.
1791 MRS. RADCLIFFE Rom. Forest i, They..then placed them on two horses, a man mounted behind each, and they immediately galloped off.
1807-8 W. IRVING Salmag. (1824) 72 A squadron of hardy veterans..who..trot and amble, and gallop..through every street.
1885 TENNYSON Charge Heavy Brigade ii, Up the hill Gallopt the gallant three hundred.
3. trans. To make (a horse, etc.) go at full speed.
a1533 LD. BERNERS Huon liii. 178, I can ryght wel..rynne & galop a hors.
1617 MARKHAM Caval. II. 145 And when you doe gallop him, you shal not at the first gallop him aboue fiue or sixe times vpon one hand.
1737 POPE Hor. Epist. II. i. 14 Let your Muse take breath, And never gallop Pegasus to death.
1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 309/2 If, immediately after drinking his fill, he were galloped hard.
1884 J. COLBORNE Hicks Pasha 68 Then the bridegroom and his men went through a fantasia, galloping their dromedaries at full speed.
4. To traverse (a space) rapidly on horseback or by means of horses. Obs.
1588 SHAKES. Tit. A. II. i. 7 The golden Sunne..Gallops the Zodiacke in his glistering Coach.
fig. 1590 NASHE (
title), First Parte of Pasquils Apologie wherein he renders a Reason of his long Silence and gallops the Fielde with the Treatise of Reformation written by John Penrie.
Ibid. I. Divb, I haue..gallopped the fielde to make choyse of the ground where my battaile shall be planted.
5. transf. and fig. (from senses 1 and 2).
1583 STANYHURST Æneis iv (Arb.) 101 Furth she [Fame] quicklye galops, with wingflight swallolyke hastning.
1593 SHAKES. 2 Hen. VI,
I. iii 154 Shee's tickled now, her Furie needs no spurres, Shee'le gallop farre enough to her destruction.
1600 
A.Y.L. III. ii. 329.
1626 L. OWEN Spec. Jesuit. (1629) 31 They [the Iesuites] came galloping so fast into hell, and grew to be so many, that Lucifer was afraid.
1630 J. TAYLOR (Water P.)
Wks. II. 130/1 His Tongue much like a Hackney goes all paces..It gallops and false gallops, trots and ambles.
1681 Trial S. Colledge 44 Pray Sir, you go too fast already, as you are still gallopping.
1725 RAMSAY Gent. Sheph. II. ii, They gallop fast that deils and lasses drive.
1841 S. C. HALL Ireland I. 151 The mountain torrents crawl or gallop to mingle with the broad Atlantic.
b. to gallop away: to talk fast, to ‘rattle on’.
1711 SWIFT Lett. (1767) III. 183 How you gallop away in your spleen and your rage about repenting my journey.
1875 JOWETT Plato (ed. 2) II. 237 Pray observe how I gallop away when I get on smooth ground.
c. to gallop over or through: to hurry over (in reading or reciting), to read cursorily.
1782 F. BURNEY Let. to S. Crisp 25 Feb., The unreasonable hurry with which I was obliged to gallop over such a book.
1826 J. W. CROKER in
C. Papers 13 Nov. (1884), Do not gallop through my letter..but read it over and over again.
1859 H. C. WATSON in
Darwin's Life & Lett. (1887) II. 226, I could not rest till I had galloped through the whole.
1875 JOWETT Plato (ed. 2) II. 113, I will gallop through the discourse as fast as I can.
6. To dance rapidly; to dance a GALOP. Obs.
1806-7 J. BERESFORD Miseries Hum. Life (1826)
III. xxi, You instantly tear down the dance..incessantly vociferating as you ramp and gallop along.
1826 Lover's Quarrel in
Lit. Souvenir 6 When I dance with Sir Dunce, or gallop with Sir Gosling?
7. trans. To convey rapidly by means of galloping horses.
1882 Let. of Officer in R. Acad. Catal. (1883) 95 We galloped the left gun at it and it went into the ditch with a bump. 1897 Daily News 2 Feb. 7/4 Commander Wells was galloped over from headquarters in a hose van.
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