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lope
[ lohp ]
verb (used without object)
, loped, lop·ing.
- to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
- to canter leisurely with a rather long, easy stride, as a horse.
verb (used with object)
, loped, lop·ing.
- to cause to lope, as a horse.
noun
- the act or the gait of loping.
- a long, easy stride.
lope
/ ləʊp /
verb
- intr (of a person) to move or run with a long swinging stride
- intr (of four-legged animals) to run with a regular bounding movement
- to cause (a horse) to canter with a long easy stride or (of a horse) to canter in this manner
noun
- a long steady gait or stride
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Derived Forms
- ˈloper, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lope1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English verb lopen, loupen, laupen “to jump, leap,” from Old Norse hlaupa; leap, loup 2( def )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lope1
C15: from Old Norse hlaupa to leap ; compare Middle Dutch lopen to run
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Example Sentences
Duane and Dicky lope backstage afterwards to “do some sniff,” as Dicky terms it.
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Piegan swung into the coulée at a fast lope, and we stole carefully down to meet him.
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This is Cervantes's description of the national stage in the time of his immediate predecessor, Lope de Rueda.
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She saw him pause, bend his head, then lope away in the direction taken by Rajah.
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The ponies were coming at the lope now, and not an instant was to be lost.
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It has him down under the marriages with Pen-e-lope Miranda Folwell.
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