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gait

noun
/ɡeɪt/US/ɡæɪt/

Etymology

From a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate.

  1. derived from *gatwǭ✻ — “passageway, street”
  2. derived from gata — “path, lane, alley, road”
  3. inherited from gate — “way, path, road, street”

Definitions

  1. A manner of walking or stepping

    A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

    • Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.

  2. One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either…

    One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either naturally or as a result of training.

  3. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A sheaf of corn.

    2. A charge for pasturage.

The neighborhood

Derived

double-gaiter, gait apraxia, midgait, multigait, square-gaiter, tandem gait

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gait. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA