Trudge vs Lope - What's the difference?
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To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
To trudge along or over a route etc.
(obsolete) To jump, leap.
*, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
*:And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
*Middleton
*:He that lopes on the ropes.
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
:He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
Trudge is a related term of lope.
As a noun trudge
is a tramp, ie a long and tiring walk.As a verb trudge
is to walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.As a proper noun lope is
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Verb
(trudg)- This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.