longe
Plural: longes
Verb
Verb Forms: longed, longeing, longes
- To guide a horse in circles with a long rope from the center.
- To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.
Noun
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
- A lunge; a thrust.
- The training ground for a horse.
- plural of longa
Examples
- He tried to LONGE his opponent into playing low-scoring words, but the strategy failed.
Origin / Etymology
From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.
Scrabble Score: 6
longe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlonge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
longe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
longe: valid Words With Friends Word