longe

present singular third person longes · participle present longeing · participle past longed · past longed · alternative UK lunge

1. UStransitiveTo work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.

plural longes · alternative UK lunge

1. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
2. obsoleteA lunge; a thrust.

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   […] he parried my thrusts with great calmness, until I had almost exhausted my spirits; and when he perceived me beginning to flag, attacked me fiercely in his turn.—Finding himself however better opposed than he expected, he resolved to follow his longe, and close with me; accordingly, his sword entered my waistcoat […]

   1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 59, in The Adventures of Roderick Random, volume 2, London: J. Osborn, page 252

3. governmentThe training ground for a horse.

   LONGE.—The training ground for the instruction of a young horse, to render him quiet, tractable, and supple; to give him free and proper use of his limbs, to form his paces, and to prepare him in all respects for the cavalry service.

   1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow’s Military Encyclopedia, volume 2, New York, page 230

alternative longæ · alternative longas · alternative UK lunge

1. pluralplural of longa

plural Longes

1. A surname.