hoofprint
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5.2
- noun
- /ˈhuːfprɪnt/
:
huella de casco
- As we walked along the trail, we found deep hoofprints left by a moose in the mud.
- hoofprints of horses
- leave hoofprints
- follow the hoofprints
Examples
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Hoofprints left by cows and horses were cemented by the frozen mud.
Fiction book (1991) -
Even now, in places, the snow had melted into hoofprints.
Fiction book (1997) -
Pick up those hoofprints as evidence.
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I followed after, glad to see no hoofprints going in our immediate direction.
Fiction book (1990) -
Isn't that a hoofprint there, Pa?
Blog text (15) -
Countless hoofprints cover the flat ground.
Fiction book (1990) -
Kwame: I have never seen such large hoofprints.
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On the clayey bank were the embossings of hoofprints and, mixed in, the cloven markings of deer tracks.
Fiction book (1997) -
Pocked across the dry riverbed were a half-year's worth of goat hoofprints accumulated since the last time it rained.
Fiction book (2002) -
The sand was littered with writhed driftwood, dotted with burned stumps, and the hoofprints of cattle.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
22
4.2
A mark made when something presses into a surface or the tool that makes it
1
4.9
A mark that an animal with hard feet makes in soft ground
A mark left in soft ground by an animal's foot like a horse
How Clear
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Morphology
Etymology
The word hoofprint is made from two simple parts: hoof and print. A hoof is the hard 'foot' of animals like horses and deer, and a print is a 'mark' left behind, so a hoofprint is the mark an animal's foot leaves on the ground.