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Galloper n.

One who, or that which, gallops.

(Mil.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.

Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Galloper" Quotes from Famous Books

... the green standards on the mountain moved down to assist them in a last rally. Which was unwise. The Lancers chafing in the right gorge had thrice despatched their only subaltern as galloper to report on the progress of affairs. On the third occasion he returned, with a bullet-graze on his knee, swearing strange oaths in Hindoostani, and saying that all things were ready. So that Squadron swung round the right of ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... sent the thousand Kurds to deal with us; but, as I have told, we beat them. And that made the Kurds who held Wassmuss prisoner extremely angry with Gooja Singh; so they made him prisoner, too. And then, by signal and galloper and shouts from crag to crag came word that the Turks were marching in force to invade the mountains, and instantly they turned on Gooja Singh and would have torn him in pieces for being a spy of the Turks, sent on ahead to prepare the ...

— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy