lope
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
lope (lopes, present participle loping; past and past participle loped)
- To travel an easy pace with long strides.
- He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
- a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786 ↗; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034 ↗:
- 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
- he that lopes on the ropes
- French: courir en bondissant
- Italian: procedere a lunghi salti
- Russian: размашисто идти
- Spanish: correr a paso largo
lope (plural lopes)
- An easy pace with long strides.
- 1931, Home Geographic Monthly (volumes 1-2, page 45)
- Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]
- 1931, Home Geographic Monthly (volumes 1-2, page 45)
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