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Galloper n.

One who, or that which, gallops.

(Mil.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.

Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Galloper" Quotes from Famous Books

... found a reddish-brown phlegmatic face, and guessed its age at fifty. He brought the last down train into Lewminster station every night at 9.45, took her on five minutes later, and passed through Lewminster again at noon, on his way back with the Galloper, as the ...

— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past, And I saw my stout galloper, Roland, at last, With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... retorted the first speaker. "A house with a window on Galloper's Ridge, fifteen miles from ...

— In a Hollow of the Hills • Bret Harte

... still. He was wearing a decorative new traveling cap, very smart and extensive and expensive, shaped like a muffin, and patterned with the Douglas tartan and an Etruscan border. He rather wanted to let people see it. He was no Pilkings clerk now, but a world-galloper. With his cap clapped down on one side and his youthful cigarette-holder cocked up on the other, and in his buttonhole a carnation jaunty as a red pompon, with the breeze puffing out the light silver hair ...

— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis

... Richard and his wife returned to Mount Kisco and my brother at once started in to change his farce "The Galloper" into a musical comedy. It was produced on August 12, at the Astor Theatre, under the title of the "Yankee Tourist," with Raymond Hitchcock as the star. The following I quote from Richard's diary of ...

— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... is a dark grey. Horses are much happier with their thick coats off. The hair will have grown again in a couple of weeks, but it won't be thick for some time. My mare is a grand horse for steady, continuous work, also quite a good galloper. I had a gallop for two furlongs or so the other day with the Staff Captain and the A.D.C., each mounted on a crack cavalry charger. My mare came in with the first of them, and had more left in her at the end than either of ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones