gallop vs litter

gallop

verb
  • To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. 

  • To ride at a galloping pace. 

  • To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines. 

  • To run very fast. 

  • To progress rapidly through the body. 

  • To run at a gallop. 

  • To cause to gallop. 

noun
  • The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. 

  • An act or instance of going or running rapidly. 

  • An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop. 

litter

verb
  • To scatter carelessly about. 

  • To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles). 

  • To give birth to, used of animals. 

  • To strew (a place) with scattered articles. 

  • To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. 

  • To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. 

  • To produce a litter of young. 

noun
  • Material used as bedding for animals. 

  • A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol. 

  • Collectively, items discarded on the ground. 

  • A covering of straw for plants. 

  • Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray 

  • The offspring of a mammal born in one birth. 

  • Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor. 

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