Hoof

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The horny sheath covering the toes or lower part of the foot of a mammal of the orders Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla, such as a horse, ox, or deer.
  • noun. The foot of such an animal, especially a horse.
  • noun. The human foot.
  • intransitive verb. To trample with the hooves.
  • intransitive verb. To dance, especially as a professional.
  • intransitive verb. To go on foot; walk.
  • idiom. (hoof it) To walk.
  • idiom. (hoof it) To dance.
  • idiom. (on the hoof) Not yet butchered; alive. Used especially of cattle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To walk, as cattle; foot: with an indefinite it.
  • To kill (game) by shooting it on the ground.
  • noun. The casing of hard horny substance which sheathes the ends of the digits or incases the foot in many animals.
  • noun. A hoofed animal; a beast.
  • noun. In geometry, an ungula or part of a cylinder or cone cut off by a plane cutting both the base and the curved surface.
  • noun. In tortoise-shell manuf., one of the smaller plates of translucent shell forming the head.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.
  • noun. A hoofed animal; a beast.
  • noun. See Ungula.
  • intransitive verb. To walk as cattle.
  • intransitive verb. To be on a tramp; to foot.
  • intransitive verb. to foot it.
  • intransitive verb. of cattle, standing (on the hoof); not slaughtered.
  • intransitive verb. live cattle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
  • noun. The human foot.
  • verb. To trample with hooves.
  • verb. To walk.
  • verb. To dance, especially as a professional.
  • verb. to kick, especially to kick the football a long way downfield with little accuracy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. dance in a professional capacity
  • noun. the horny covering of the end of the foot in ungulate mammals
  • verb. walk
  • noun. the foot of an ungulate mammal