Definition of "lope" []

• To run or ride with a steady, easy gait. (verb-intransitive)
• A steady, easy gait. (noun)

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• "‘Tue-tête means Pénélope is singing as LOUD as she can,’ she explains in a decidedly schoolmistressy voice, cranking up her internal volume dial to better illustrate her point and eliciting a groan from The Boy, who is sleeping in the bedroom, a few metres away."
• "The dancing was the usual hippity-hop or "lope" sideways, each holding hands with his or her neighbours."
• "This "lope" as it is called, seems to be a gait peculiarly adapted to the mustang, as they will break into, and keep it up the entire day; evincing no more distress than our ordinary horse does in trotting leisurely."