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noun

Amble n.

A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. "A fine easy amble."

A movement like the amble of a horse.

verb

Amble v. i. (past & past part. ambled; pres. part. ambling)

To go at the easy gait called an amble; applied to the horse or to its rider.

To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. "The skipping king, he ambled up and down." "Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily."

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Etymology of 'Amble'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Amble" Quotes from Famous Books

... enjoy it if he were," said Maggie. "A motor traveling van would never do. You see the point of this kind of life is that it's lazy and contemplative. We just amble along and it doesn't matter whether we make ten miles or five. We are not attempting long distance records. We are just getting intimate with the ups and downs of the country; the streams and rivers; the little valleys and bits of green by the roadside. Sometimes, ...

— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes

... his spectacles and filthy old hat; stripped off coat, waistcoat, and collar, and gave him them to carry home; borrowed, too, the foul stump of a clay pipe as an extra property. He indicated my simple tasks, and without more ado set off at an amble bedwards. Bed may have been his chief object, but I think there was also something left in the foot of a bottle. I prayed that he might be safe under cover before my friends arrived ...

— The Thirty-nine Steps • John Buchan

... while the dogs amble along, sniffing here and there at obscure scents, now loitering to investigate a moment, now standing and looking off into the dark. Tom knows by their actions what they think. "That's a coyote's trail," he says, ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... dreamily, "how the tread of them calves has moved down through the centuries! If every calf should amble right out, marked with its own name and the name of its owner, what a sight, what a sight it would be! On one calf, right after its owner's name, would be branded, ...

— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... Humfrey, "because he can amble and mince more like a wench than any of us. The worse luck for him. He will have more speeches than any ...

— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge

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