Verb

(en verb)

(Intransitive. Of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.

The horse galloped past the finishing line.

To ride at a galloping pace.

* John Donne

Gallop lively down the western hill.

To cause to gallop.

to gallop a horse

To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.

To run very fast.

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(figurative) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

* John Locke

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

Verb

(straggl)

To stray from the road, course or line of march.

He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.

To wander about; ramble.

* L'Estrange

The wolf spied out a straggling kid.

To spread at irregular intervals.

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To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

* Mortimer

Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.

To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.

* Sir Walter Scott

straggling pistol shots

* Sir Walter Raleigh

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.