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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
high-stepping en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a horse, that walks or trots lifting its legs very high off the ground.
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(broadly, not-comparable) Moving proudly.
On a journey across the flat Fenlands from Spalding to Nottingham my train was made up of six modern ex-L.M.S.R. corridor coaches behind a high-stepping 0-6-0 of Class "J1", a Doncaster mixed-traffic design of 1908.
1950 October, R. S. McNaught, “Joys of the Unexpected”, in Railway Magazine, page 690:
high-stepping en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of high-step