Definitions for gaitgeɪt

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

gaitgeɪt(n.)

  1. a manner of walking, stepping, or running.

  2. any of the manners in which a horse moves, as a walk, trot, canter, or gallop.

  3. (v.t.)to teach a specified gait to (a horse).

  4. to lead (a dog) before judges to show its manner of moving.

    Category: Dogs, Cats, and Horses

Origin of gait:

1500–10; Scots, ME sp. var. of gate1

Princeton's WordNet

  1. pace, gait(noun)

    the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

  2. gait(noun)

    a horse's manner of moving

  3. gait(noun)

    a person's manner of walking

Wiktionary

  1. gait(Noun)

    Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

    Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.

  2. gait(Noun)

    One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.

  3. gait(Verb)

    To teach a specific gait to a horse.

  4. Origin: gate, from gata (road).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gait(noun)

    a going; a walk; a march; a way

  2. Gait(noun)

    manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Gait

    Manner or style of walking.


Translations for gait

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

gait(noun)

(plural rare) the way in which a person or animal walks

the old man's shuffling gait.

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