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Hoove

Hoove \Hoove\, n. [Allied to heave, hove.] A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hoove

cattle disease, 1840, from alternative past tense form of heave.

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hoove

n. A disease in cattle consisting of inflammation of the stomach by gas, usually caused by eating too much green food.

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Hoove

Hoove is a hill in the northern Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England, near the town of Barnard Castle in County Durham. Its elevation is , and it is classified as a Marilyn (a hill with topographic prominence of at least 150m).

Category:Marilyns of England Category:Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales

Usage examples of "hoove".

Luthien waited until the last possible second, then cut Riverdancer to the left, angling away from the knight, and the strong and agile steed responded, cutting hard, clumps of turf flying from its hooves.

Isazi and Jan Cheroot strapped the rawhide bootees over the hooves of the horses, while Ralph gave his final orders, speaking in Sindebele, the only language they would use during the entire raid.

North Road the horses stretched out, manes and tails streaming back in the moonlight as they raced northward, hooves pounding a steady rhythm.

They spoke in voices both human and mareish, words punctuated by snorts, flicks of their tails, and the stamping of hooves.

The animals are chipped, the paint is peeling, the giraffe and elephant are missing hooves and tusks, and the carousel is musicless and graceless.

The cavalier reached for a pistolet and would have reined in, but the dying horse was now plunging forward, bit in his teeth, breath whistling, hooves thundering down the declivity and re-echoing from the trees.

Behind them, to a rolling thump of hooves on turf, the others came, following the track to the reived farm.

Carving and fitting the pieces was slow, even with the glue Relyn had developed from ground deer hooves and boiled hide and who knew what else.

At first the trail was no more than a scarring in the crusty surface of the plain, the cuts of hooves and the long ridges of the wagon paths fading in the ever-present cold wind.

From the castle below the comforting, muted noise of soldiers, hooves on cobblestones, an occasional throaty laugh wafting upwards with the smoke and smells of the cooking fires through the decorative, bowman openings in the vast walls, not yet shuttered against the night chill.

With the coach along, they were perforce obliged to take the roada longer, much more circuitous route than that cross-country one which, though much shorter, was passable for most of its length only to feet or hooves, and then so only in snowless seasons.

Miliana had to shout above the awful clatter of hooves, springal winches, and catapult wheels inside the belly of the wagon.

The sounds of thoroughbraces groaning beneath heavy weight, the rise and fall of hooves, the lurching rock-and-sway of movement, a distant mutter of human voices.

He thought she was about to reply when he heard the sudden thuttering of hooves.

At least, they had four legs, hooves, and two delicately curved, unbranching horns on their heads.