Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lope \Lope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Loping}.] [See {Leap}.]
   1. To leap; to dance. [Prov. Eng.] ``He that lopes on the
      ropes.'' --Middleton.

   2. To move with a lope, as a horse. [U.S.]