[
UK
/ɡˈeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈɡeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɡeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a person's manner of walking
- the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- a horse's manner of moving
How To Use gait In A Sentence
- It is a dialect form of Old Fr. gaite, cognate with watch. The Romance of Names
- In deep snow, a pair of gaiters is also useful to prevent snow from cascading over your boot tops.
- Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables
- He was an extremely picturesque gardener, dressed in knickerbockers and leather gaiters, with a touch of red in his waistcoat, and a cardigan jacket and a cap on the side of his head. Just Patty
- Desire kept his head down and held his gait to an ordinary shamble, all to come as close as he could. HAMMERFALL
- With his long arms and peculiar flatfooted gait, his opponents compared him to an ape. Times, Sunday Times
- After all, I had distanced myself from the granola crowd the year before by skiing in knickers rather than blue jeans and gaiters.
- His speech is a mumble, his face immobile, his gait unsteady.
- A dozen sixth-years poured out from the far end, their lanterns swinging haphazardly from their jarring gait.
- During one conversation, outdoors in front of the houses, he said, I've got my gaita right here in my car! Making Light: The new new TSA regulations