hand-gallopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hand gallop (plural hand gallops)

1. A controlled gallop, in which the speed of the horse is restrained by the bridle-hand.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 235:

     He had ridden off at a hand-gallop within ten minutes after he had reached the barracks […] .

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:

     Whereupon wilful Kitty set off, her dainty little head in the air, at a hand-gallop in the direction of the Band-stand; fully expecting, as she herself afterwards told me, that I should follow her.