Synonyms for lope
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : lohp |
| Phonetic Transcription : loÊŠp |
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
- 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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