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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Single-foot

Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, v. i. To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. -- Sin"gle-foot`er, n.

Single-foot

Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, n. An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i.

Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot.
--Stillman (The Horse in Motion.)

WordNet
single-foot

  1. n. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately [syn: rack]

  2. v. go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: rack]

Usage examples of "single-foot".

Supposedly it had been patterned after one from Old World, a pair of candleholders in a single-footed stand.