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noun

Gait n.

A going; a walk; a march; a way. "Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass."

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. "'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait."

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Etymology of 'Gait'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gait" Quotes from Famous Books

... intricate second thought and reasoning caused by their relations with other men, which may be called systematic soldiering. There is no question that the tendency of the average man (in all walks of life) is toward working at a slow, easy gait, and that it is only after a good deal of thought and observation on his part or as a result of example, conscience, or external pressure that he takes a ...

— Shop Management • Frederick Winslow Taylor

... for the convalescents; but the heat of the sun was so overpowering, that it was not until late in the afternoon that they could breathe the purer atmosphere. Long confinement below had left them pale and wan, and their unsteady gait proved how much they had suffered in their constitution, and how narrowly they had escaped the grave. To some this escape had been beneficial, as their constant perusal of the Bible established; others, ...

— Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery • Frank S. Marryat

... sharp lines The shapes of things that even years have buried Shine out upon the rapid memory, Moving and warm like life. I can see now The form of that tall peddler, whose strange wares, Outlandish dialect and impudent gait Awoke Euktemon's laughter. In mine ear Is echoing still the cracking string of gibes, They flung at one another. I remember too The grey-haired merchant with his bold black eyes And brace of slaves, the old ship captain tanned ...

— Among the Millet and Other Poems • Archibald Lampman

... Mission steamer, but no human agency is perfect, and even the Julia Sheriden had her faults. Her gait on this fall voyage was suggestive of inebriety, and at times gave rise to the anxious sensations one experiences when one sees a poor victim of the saloon returning home along ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... these heavy sleepers stops swinging," said Patsy, "and just seems to stand still and shiver, she's going; and when she begins to slam her flanges up against the rail, first one side and then the other, she has passed a sixty-mile gait, and that's what this ...

— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman

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