Gallop

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To cause to gallop.

II. Gallop ·vi To ride a horse at a gallop.

III. Gallop ·vi Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

IV. Gallop ·vi To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.

V. Gallop ·vi A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.