vt to cause to gallop.
2. gallop ·vi to ride a horse at a gallop.
3. gallop ·vi fig.: to go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
4. gallop ·vi to move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
5. gallop ·vi 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.