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noun
1.
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
2.
any of the manners in which a horse moves, as a walk, trot, canter, gallop, or rack.
verb (used with object)
3.
to teach a specified gait or gaits to (a horse).
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Example Sentences
- Homo erectus had a manly gait.
- He walks with the aid of a stick, stands erect and moves along at a respectable gait.
- The gait selected by eight flagbearers is utterly meaningless.
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gait
c.1200, gate "a going or walking, departure, journey," earlier "way, road, path," from O.N. gata "way, road, path." Meaning "manner of walking" is from 1509. Modern spelling developed before 1750, originally in Scottish.
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Medical Dictionary
gait (gāt)
n.
A particular way or manner of walking.
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