Loping ppl. a.

Also lopeing. [f. LOPE v. + -ING².] Characterized by long, bounding strides; having a gait of this kind.

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1707. Lond. Gaz., No. 4327/8. A brown bay Nag,… of a loping Carriage.

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1826. J. F. Cooper, Mohicans (1829), I. ii. 26. Generally content to maintain a lopeing trot. Ibid. (1841), Deerslayer, ii. A loping red-skin.

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1865. Kingsley, Herew., i. A man on foot coming up behind him at a slow, steady, loping, wolf-like trot.

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1883. J. Burroughs, Fresh Fields, i. A loping hare started up before me.

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