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verb

Lope v. i. (past & past part. loped; pres. part. loping)

To leap; to dance. (Prov. Eng.) "He that lopes on the ropes."

To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse. (U.S.)

To run with an easy, bounding stride; of people.

Lope past Of Leap. (Obs.) "And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser."

noun

Lope n.

A leap; a long step. (Prov. Eng.)

An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. (U.S.) "The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope,... a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle."

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"Lope" Quotes from Famous Books

... to, but I must get back to camp. I hope you land a good string," and so saying Grant remounted, nodded to Transley and again to the men now scattered about the camp, and started his horse on an easy lope down the valley. ...

— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead

... if he carried a jib. Now and then he makes a marvelous spring with his long legs, high over the stunted sage-brush, and scores a leap that would make a horse envious. Presently he comes down to a long, graceful "lope," and shortly he mysteriously disappears. He has crouched behind a sage-bush, and will sit there and listen and tremble until you get within six feet of him, when he will get under way again. But one must shoot at this creature ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... his horse into a lope, and a little beyond the town dismounted to pick up the trail of the fugitive, if it could be found. Thanks to a recent shower, the ground was still soft, and the cattleman soon picked up the trail of a shod horse, leading away ...

— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony

... to the back of the rookery, and Colin saw a sea-catch of good size, though not as large as the bull whose savage attack on the cow had excited Colin's resentment, come plunging down through the rookery with the clumsy lope of the excited seal. The cow squirmed from under the threatening fangs of her captor, but just as he was about to punish her still more severely, he caught sight of the intruder, and, with a vicious snap, he whirled ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... said the Inspector. "We will get our man to-morrow. Steady, Mr. Cadwaller, not too fast." The Inspector slowed his horse down to a walk, which he gradually increased to an easy lope and so brought up with Cameron and ...

— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor

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