2. To perform the dance called gallopade.
Galloper
(Gal"lop*er) n.
1. One who, or that which, gallops.
2. (Mil.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts,
without a limber. Farrow.
Galloper gun,
a light gun, supported on a galloper, — formerly attached to British infantry regiments.
Gallopin
(Gal"lo*pin) n.[F. galopin. See Gallop, v. i.] An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a
cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.
Galloping
(Gal"lop*ing) a. Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.
Gallotannic
(Gal`lo*tan"nic) a. [Gall nutgall + tannic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.
Gallotannic acid.
See Tannic acid, under Tannic.
Gallow
(Gal"low) v. t. [Cf. AS. agelwan to stupefy.] To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [Obs.] Shak.
Galloway
(Gal"lo*way) n. (Zoöl.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; — called also
garran, and garron.
Gallowglass
(Gal"low*glass`) n. [Ir. galloglach. Cf. Gillie.] A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland
and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.
Gallows
(Gal"lows) n. sing.; pl. Gallowses (#) or Gallows. [OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga,
gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. galgi, Sw. & Dan. galge,
Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural number,
but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded by a; as, a gallows.]
1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually
consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows.
Esther vii. 10.
If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows.
Shak.
O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!
Shak. 2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] Shak.
3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.]
Gallows bird,
a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.] — Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or
more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; — called also gallows, gallows top, gallows
frame, etc. — Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows
bitts. — Gallows, or Gallow tree, the gallows.
At length him nailéd on a gallow tree.
Spenser. Gallstone
(Gall"stone`) n. A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See
Calculus, n., 1.