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Gallop

To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.

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Gait 76% connected

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pace 76% connected

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Sit 76% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Extend 74% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Extend 74% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Extend 92% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Accelerate verb · 78% connection

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: move, mode, called, horse, speed.
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Alamodality noun · 78% connection

The quality of being a la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.

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Bayard adjective · 78% connection

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

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Course verb · 78% connection

To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

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Dash noun · 78% connection

A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

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Draw verb · 78% connection

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing…

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Fashion noun · 78% connection

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; partic…

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Fleetness noun · 78% connection

Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

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form noun · 78% connection

Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the eleme…

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Gallicism noun · 78% connection

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

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Hack noun · 78% connection

A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunti…

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Hippocampus noun · 78% connection

A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also…

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Horse noun · 78% connection

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…

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Jack noun · 78% connection

A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.

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Judge verb · 78% connection

A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.

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Jurel noun · 78% connection

A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish;…

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Kepler's second law noun · 78% connection

a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times; "…

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Latinism noun · 78% connection

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

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