Crossword clues for hoofs
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoof \Hoof\ (h[=oo]f), n.; pl. Hoofs (h[=oo]fs), very rarely Hooves (h[=oo]vz). [OE. hof, AS. h[=o]f; akin to D. hoef, G. huf, OHG. huof, Icel. h[=o]fr, Sw. hof, Dan. hov; cf. Russ. kopuito, Skr. [,c]apha. [root]225.]
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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.
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A hoofed animal; a beast.
Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind.
--Ex. x. 26. (Geom.) See Ungula.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "hoofs".
His steel-shod hoofs tore chunks out of the green turf with the thunder of rapid fire from a massed battery of cannon, the sound for which Jim had named him.
As soon as he felt the bottom of the far shore under the horse's hoofs Jim slid on to his back again, and they burst out on to the beach at full stride.
When he splashed in on the other side, it was already too deep for his hoofs to find the bottom.
He urged the mare into a gallop, but heavy clods of mud flew from her hoofs and it was immediately obvious that she was making heavy work of it.
The black rock was so hard that not even the steel shod hoofs of the horses left a scratch upon the surface.
These would muffle the hoofs of the six horses they were taking with them.
The leather booties had padded the hoofs, the bare human feet were soft and pliant, and they had walked slowly, not adding their weight to that of the horses.
On the evening of the fifth day he strapped the hoofs of the dead rhebuck back-to-front on his own feet.
She smiled at him through the thin veil of dust kicked up by the hoofs of the horses.
They maintained the wide spacing to avoid the dust raised by the hoofs of the leading oxen and the iron rimmed wheels of the vehicles they pulled.
The sound of the horses' hoofs faded, and the silence of the mountains pressed down upon Le Riche with such weight that he felt the last shreds of his courage and resolve crushed beneath it.
Koots and Oudeman cut a young cow out of the herd of a dozen and, riding hard at her heels, with the stones and pebbles flung up by her hoofs whizzing past their ears they fired into her rump, trying to send a ball through the ridge of her spine, which showed clearly under her dappled brown and yellow skin.
They were only half-way there when Koots saw the spring buck herds ahead pranking, leaping high in the air with all four feet together and noses almost touching their front hoofs, the snowy dorsal plumes flashing in full display.
He started forward to gloat over his kill, but there came the pounding of hoofs from behind.
He tried to give her courage but in the thunder of hoofs and the ringing trumpeting of the bull she showed no sign of having heard him.