galloway

See also: Galloway

English

Etymology

From Galloway, Scotland, where they were bred.

Noun

galloway (plural galloways)

1. A kind of small horse originally bred in Galloway, Scotland.
   • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 164:

     but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,

   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 173:

     ‘Don't you remember a famous trotting galloway I had, two years ago, that I bought at Tattersall's, that would go fifteen miles within the hour?’

Synonyms

• garran, garron