Sekirov Dictionary

gambol

/ˈɡæm.bəl/

noun 2
verb 2
forms 5

noun2

•
An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
- Heere hung those lipps, that I haue kist I know not how oft. VVhere be your Iibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set the Table on a Rore? — 1599
•
An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
- There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols. — 1819

verb2

•
To move about playfully; to frolic.
- The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled. — 1835
(UK) To do a forward roll.

forms

gamboled · gambolled · gamboling · gambolling · gambols

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