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lope: synonyms: ~canter ???

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Definition:

1. (obsolete) To jump, leap.
2. To travel an easy pace with long strides.

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a wolf which, softly swaying from side to side, was coming at a quiet lope farther to the left to the very place where they were standing.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 07 (Book Seven) . Simon & Schuster

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I just sat there watching him approach, his slow loping gait,

Sarah Dessen. The Truth About Forever (2004)

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he wandered for a week, seeking vainly for fresh sign of the wild brother, killing his meat as he travelled and travelling with the long, easy lope that seems never to tire.

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)

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Some of the passengers rushing to get back on the train stopped to watch as Loomis loped over the trestle.

Olive Ann Burns. Cold Sassy Tree, p.81 (1984)

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They were going at it hard when the Captain came riding back, having lathered the mare good by loping her along the river for about twenty miles.

Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove (1985)