Meaning

noun the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

noun a horse's manner of moving

noun a person's manner of walking

originFrom a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate.

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