gallop — ONAD

gallop /ˈɡaləp, ˈɡæləp

▸ noun [in singular] the fastest pace of a horse or other quadruped, with all the feet off the ground together in each stride:

the horse broke into a furious gallop

riding at full gallop.

▪ a ride on a horse at a gallop:

Will went for a gallop on the beach.

▪ a very fast pace of running or moving:

she ran after them at a gallop

figurative West Ham began at the gallop.

▸ verb

(gallops, galloping, galloped)

[no object, with adverbial of direction]

1 (of a horse) go at the pace of a gallop:

we galloped along the sand.

▪ [with object and adverbial of direction] make (a horse) gallop:

Fred galloped the horse off to the start.

▪ (of a person) run fast and rather boisterously:

Leota galloped in from the halfway line.

▪ (of a process or time) progress rapidly in a seemingly uncontrollable manner:

panic about the deadline galloping toward them.

– DERIVATIVES
galloper /ˈɡaləpər, ˈɡæləpər

/ noun

– ORIGIN early 16th century : from Old French galop (noun), galoper, variants of Old Northern French walop, waloper (see wallop).