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noun

Hoof n. (pl. hoofs, very rarely hooves)

The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. "On burnished hooves his war horse trode."

A hoofed animal; a beast. "Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind."

(Geom.) See Ungula.

verb

Hoof v. i.

To walk as cattle. (R.)

To be on a tramp; to foot. (Slang, U.S.)

To hoof it, to foot it.

On the hoof, of cattle, standing (on the hoof); not slaughtered.

beef on the hoof, live cattle.

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Etymology of 'Hoof'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hoof" Quotes from Famous Books

... credit to myself for the team, every hoof of which reached the Coast in safety. Four steers and two cows were sufficient for our light wagon and the light outfit, not a pound of which but was useful (except the brandy) and necessary for our comfort. I had chosen ...

— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker

... clatter of accoutrement or tramp of hoof, without companion or attendant, a white palfrey had appeared through the green arches of the woodlands. A girl was seated upon the saddle, swaying with gentle movement to the motion of her steed. At the sight of ...

— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett

... the Ohio and had wandered all the way through the southern country, fighting Chickasaws, Creeks, and Choctaws, until they reached the sea, more than a thousand miles from their old home. A cunning chief, Black Hoof, who could boast that he had bathed his feet in the salt water, had led them safely back more than twenty years before, and now this same Black Hoof sat here in the council house of the Wyandots, old and wrinkled, but keen of eye, eagle-beaked, ...

— The Riflemen of the Ohio - A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" • Joseph A. Altsheler

... track, But a wild plain of far extent, 430 And bounded by a forest black[263]; And, save the scarce seen battlement On distant heights of some strong hold, Against the Tartars built of old, No trace of man. The year before A Turkish army had marched o'er; And where the Spahi's hoof hath trod, The verdure flies the bloody sod: The sky was dull, and dim, and gray, And a low breeze crept moaning by— 440 I could have answered with a sigh— But fast we fled,—away!—away!— And I could neither sigh nor pray; And my cold sweat-drops fell like ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... only one in at the death. To commemorate his triumph he frames a basin for the spring whose waters were stirred by his victim's dying breath; he plants three stone pillars to mark the creature's hoof-prints in its marvellous leap from the mountain to the springside; and he builds a pleasure house and an arbour where he comes with his paramour to make merry in the summer days. But Nature sets her seal of condemnation ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

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