1. A particular way or manner of moving on foot: a person who ran with a clumsy, hobbling gait.2. Any of the ways, such as a canter, trot, or walk, by which a horse can move by lifting the feet in different order or rhythm. 3. Rate or manner of proceeding: The project went forward at a steady gait.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: gait·ed, gait·ing, gaits To train (a horse) in a particular gait or gaits.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English gate, path, gait, from Old Norse gata, path. See gh- in Appendix I.
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