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hand gallop en · NOUN
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A controlled gallop, in which the speed of the horse is restrained by the bridle-hand.
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.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:He had ridden off at a hand-gallop within ten minutes after he had reached the barracks […].
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 235:
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