high-stepping

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English

Verb

high-stepping

  1. present participle and gerund of high-step

Adjective

high-stepping (not comparable)

  1. Of a horse, that walks or trots lifting its legs very high off the ground.
  2. (by extension) Moving proudly.
    • 1950 October, R. S. McNaught, “Joys of the Unexpected”, in Railway Magazine, page 690:
      On a journey across the flat Fenlands from Spalding to Nottingham my train was made up of six modern ex-L.M.S.R. corridor coaches behind a high-stepping 0-6-0 of Class "J1", a Doncaster mixed-traffic design of 1908.