— galloper , n.
/gal"euhp/ , v.i.
1. to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
2. to run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.
3. to go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.
v.t.
4. to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.
n.
5. a fast gait of the horse or other quadruped in which, in the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground at once.
6. a run or ride at this gait.
7. a rapid rate of going.
8. a period of going rapidly.
[ 1375-1425; late ME galopen (v.) galoper wala hlaupan to run well (see WELL 1 , LEAP) or, alternatively, v. deriv. of * walhlaup, equiv. to * wal battlefield (c. OHG wal; see VALKYRIE) + * hlaup run, course (deriv. of the v.) ]
Syn. 3. run, rush, dash, speed, fly, scoot.