3. Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

Locke.

Gal"lop (?), v. t. To cause to gallop.

Gal"lop, n. [Cf. F. galop. See Gallop, v. i., and cf. Galop.] A mode of

running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately

the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.

Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.

Gal"lo*pade` (?), n. [F. galopade. See Gallop, n.] 1. I horsemanship, a

sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.

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