Ambling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amble \Am"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ambled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Ambling}.] [F. ambler to amble, fr. L. ambulare to walk, in
     LL., to amble, perh. fr. amb-, ambi-, and a root meaning to
     go: cf. Gr. ? to go, E. base. Cf. {Ambulate}.]
     1. To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the
        horse or to its rider.


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     2. To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or
        without hard shocks.
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              The skipping king, he ambled up and down. --Shak.
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              Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. --Shak.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambling":
     ambulation, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, claudicant,
     crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, easy,
     faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork,
     gentle, going on foot, gradual, halting, hiking, hitchhiking,
     hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, indolent, languid,
     languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marching,
     moderate, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, relaxed,
     reluctant, sauntering, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow,
     slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling,
     slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced,
     slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish,
     snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, thumbing,
     thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping,
     treading, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, waddling, walking