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单词 to go narrow
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to go narrow
b. to fall narrow: to fall short. to go narrow: (of a horse) to move with its legs too close together. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > keep legs wide apart or close together
to go narrow1646
straddle1685
stroddle1702
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 116 [He] Ne're suffred, yet his little Arrow, Of Heavens high'st Arches to fall narrow.
1649 Impartiall Intelligencer No. 7. 55 A tall white Gray Gelding dappled, on the Buttock, with a Flea-bitten head, short cut Tayle, goeth narrow behind.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3289/4 Lost..a Bayish dun Horse about 15 hands,..goes narrow.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) A Horse is said to go narrow, when he does not take Ground enough, that does not bear far enough out, to the one Hand or to the other.
1752 Pennsylvania Gaz. 13 Aug. A bay horse,..a star in his forehead, and a white snip on nose, his hind-feet white to the foot-lock joints, goes narrow behind.
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