Definitions for Lope

Lope lope

Spelling: [lohp]
IPA: /loʊp/

Lope is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Lope (elop).

Definitions for Lope

noun

  1. the act or the gait of loping.
  2. a long, easy stride.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to lope, as a horse.

verb (used without object)

  1. to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
  2. to canter leisurely with a rather long, easy stride, as a horse.

Origin of Lope

1375-1425; late Middle English Dutch lopen to run, cognate with Old English hlēapan to leap

Examples for Lope

Duane and Dicky lope backstage afterwards to “do some sniff,” as Dicky terms it.

He was moving leisurely, keeping his horse at the cattle pony's lope.

Without a word in reply the Elder turned his horse and started off at a lope.

The ponies were coming at the lope now, and not an instant was to be lost.

He was taught not to trot, but to go directly from the walk to the "lope."

The six blue figures were only fifty feet away, approaching him at a lope.

Without waiting for him to reply, she urged her horse into a lope.

The great lope, in 1630, acknowledged him as a poet and his friend.

The horse broke into a lope on the level stretch in answer to the spur.

They had scented danger, but it was too late for the foremost to turn and lope off.

Word Value for Lope
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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