Definition of "gallopers" [gallopers]

• Plural form of galloper. (noun)

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• "The guns were called gallopers because they were light and were usually hauled by horses, but now they were all harnessed to teams of ten oxen so they plodded rather than galloped."
• "Anyways, one day, Jack's out poaching rabbits in the wild woods when these knights ride up, all grand on their gallopers, armour gleaming in the sunlight."
• "By afternoon the sun is full out – lighting the distant china clay landscape to the east and sparkling on the barley twist poles, mirrors, brightly painted horses and cockerels of the steam gallopers."