Lark and Gamely

noun

• North American songbirds having a yellow breast.
  • synonyms: meadowlark
• A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
  • synonyms: pipit, titlark
• Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.
• Any carefree episode.
  • synonyms: escapade

verb

• Play boisterously.
  • usage: "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"
  • synonyms: frolic, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

• (v.i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.
• (n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks or horned by the shore larks or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
• (v.i.) A frolic; a jolly time.
• (v.i.) To sport; to frolic.

• English, American: From the English word for the type of songbird
• English: Lark

adverb

• In a plucky manner.
  • usage: "he was seen by a shepherd, gamely negotiating a particularly tricky section of the mountain road to San Doloroso"