hand gallop

noun

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

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounhand gallop (plural hand gallops)

plural hand gallops

  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 […].

    1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 235
    1 more example

    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.

    1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15
Cite this entry
APA

hand gallop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hand%20gallop

MLA

“hand gallop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hand%20gallop. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hand gallop,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hand%20gallop.

Source: hand gallop on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.