Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slow in gait; moving slowly; slow-paced; tardigrade.
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Examples
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Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited.
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Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited.
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She was believed to be invulnerable, and had powerful double engines by which she could be easily handled; while our monitors were so slow-gaited that they were unable to offer any serious obstacle to her approach.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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They are slow-gaited creatures, easily caught by dogs, but with their needle spines, and the sharp, quick-slapping action of their tails, by means of which they can thrust, insert, inject -- which is the better word?
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Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited.
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
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She might think a little about them when she sat at night, spinning in silence by the household fire, or when she went out in the gloaming to call the cattle home to be milked, and sauntered back behind the patient, slow-gaited creatures; and at times on future summer days, when, as in the past, she took her knitting out for the sake of the freshness of the faint sea-breeze, and dropping down from ledge to ledge of the rocks that faced the blue ocean, established herself in a perilous nook that had been her haunt ever since her parents had come to Haytersbank Farm.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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She might think a little about them when she sat at night, spinning in silence by the household fire, or when she went out in the gloaming to call the cattle home to be milked, and sauntered back behind the patient, slow-gaited creatures; and at times on future summer days, when, as in the past, she took her knitting out for the sake of the freshness of the faint sea-breeze, and dropping down from ledge to ledge of the rocks that faced the blue ocean, established herself in a perilous nook that had been her haunt ever since her parents had come to Haytersbank Farm.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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