hoofs
Equine foot coverings
Hoofs is the plural of hoof—the hard covering protecting the feet of horses, cattle, deer, and similar animals.
Both hoofs and hooves are standard plurals, with hooves slightly more common in American English: The horse's hoofs clattered on the cobblestones.
As a verb, to hoof means to walk or dance: We hoofed it to the station.
Impression from ungulate foot
- keratinStructural hair protein
- soleFoot's bottom surface
- frogTailless leaping amphibian
- coronetSmall noble's circlet
pastern · fetlock · cloven · shod · shoeing · farrier · blacksmith · trimming
Rhythmic hoof sound
- gallopSwiftest quadruped gait
- canterModerate equine gait
- trotPace between walk, canter
- paceSpeed of movement
amble · prance · stride · lope · gait · stampede · thunder · pounding
hoofprint
Impression from ungulate foot
coronet · pastern · fetlock · cloven · shod · shoeing · farrier · blacksmith · trimming · laminae
clip-clop
Rhythmic hoof sound
pace · amble · prance · stride · lope · gait · stampede · thunder · pounding · pawing
equine
Of the horse family
deer · antelope · gazelle · zebra · bison · buffalo · horse · donkey · mule · goat
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
pigs · pasture · grazing · ranch · farm · corral · stable · barn · roundup · herding
- hoof itWalk somewhere, slangily
- cloven hoovesDivided animal feet
- hoofing itWalking instead of riding
- horse's hoofsEquine foot structures
- cloven hoofHoof split in two
- hoofed itTraveled by walking