hoof

Examples

• All

• We stamp our hooves in praise of the Great Him!

  The Wild (2006)

• He was swifter than any other steed, and with a stomp of his hooves he could alter mountains and draw streams from dry rock.

• It's looking like a real hoof, you know, a Little Pony hoof.

• But we knew that all four hoofs had to be off the ground at the same time.

  Lex Fridman

• Rather than being an impersonal herd on the hoof, each animal had its own personality and characteristics.

  Academic text (1998)

• Instead of claws or split hooves, it had a single hoof on each foot.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Soon there was a clatter of hooves, and the rest was silence.

  Fiction book (1991)

• A huge horse, black as a nightmare, galloped past, its hooves devouring the cobblestones.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Jobber heard the steady thud of hooves running across the short grassy field.

  Fiction book (1991)

• CLOSE-UP of the donkey's hooves thumping along as Edgar leads her to the barn.

  Fiction book (1990)

Idioms

O

on the hoof

• Informal

7.4

Doing something quickly while you are busy or moving

Compounds

H

hoof-and-mouth disease

• UK

1 4.2

A contagious disease that causes fever and painful sores on the mouth and feet of animals like cows and sheep

C

cloven hoof

1 7.2

A hoof divided into two parts, like a cow's or sheep's

H

hoof mark

1 4.9

A mark that an animal with hard feet makes in soft ground

H

hoof pick

1 7.9

A small hooked tool to clean mud and stones from a horse's hoof

C

cleaning the hoof

6.8

Removing dirt and stones from a horse's foot to keep it healthy

C

cloven hoof

• Literature

8.9

A hoof split into two parts used in stories as a sign of the Devil

H

hoof-mark

7.1

A mark left in soft ground by an animal's foot like a horse

How Soft

toe bean

• Slang

7.8

hoof

73 1.4

Surface Forms

Etymology