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hand gallop

noun

Definitions

  1. A controlled gallop, in which the speed of the horse is restrained by the bridle-hand.

    • He had ridden off at a hand-gallop within ten minutes after he had reached the barracks […].
    • Whereupon wilful Kitty set off, her dainty little head in the air, at a hand-gallop in the direction of the Band-stand; fully expecting, as she herself afterwards told me, that I should follow her.

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