gait
To teach a specific gait to a horseTo teach a specific gait to a horse.
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» Tom broke his gait.
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1 sensesTo teach a specific gait to a horse.
Examples
17 sentencesTom broke his gait.
The old man's gait is wonky.
He matched his gait to his companion's.
He has the gait of a duck.
My gait is unsteady from lack of sleep.
Origin
From a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, streFrom a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate.
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Forms
gaits, gaiting, gaited, gaitedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.