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Synonyms for lope


Grammar : Verb
Spell : lohp
Phonetic Transcription : loʊp



Définition of lope

Origin :
  • "to run with long strides," early 15c.; earlier "to leap, jump, spring" (c.1300), from Old Norse hlaupa "to run, leap," from Proto-Germanic *khlaupan (see leap (v.)). Related: Loped; loping. The noun meaning "a jump, a leap" is from late 14c.; sense of "long, bounding stride" is from 1809.
  • verb stride
Example sentences :
  • He was moving leisurely, keeping his horse at the cattle pony's lope.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The horse broke into a lope on the level stretch in answer to the spur.
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • The six blue figures were only fifty feet away, approaching him at a lope.
  • Extract from : « Acid Bath » by Vaseleos Garson
  • Without waiting for him to reply, she urged her horse into a lope.
  • Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • The ponies were coming at the lope now, and not an instant was to be lost.
  • Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King
  • Without a word in reply the Elder turned his horse and started off at a lope.
  • Extract from : « Elder Conklin » by Frank Harris
  • They had scented danger, but it was too late for the foremost to turn and lope off.
  • Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • He was taught not to trot, but to go directly from the walk to the "lope."
  • Extract from : « The Eagle's Heart » by Hamlin Garland
  • The great Lope, in 1630, acknowledged him as a poet and his friend.
  • Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 » by Various
  • It was not far off, and Deerfoot broke into a lope, his friends at his heels.
  • Extract from : « Deerfoot in The Mountains » by Edward S. Ellis

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