Hoofmark

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The imprint made by a hoof; a hoofprint.

    "[…] he looked for tracks / On the ridge where he had seen the riders cantering, / And not a bush was broken, not a hoof-mark / Scarred the sear grass."

Example

More examples

"[…] he looked for tracks / On the ridge where he had seen the riders cantering, / And not a bush was broken, not a hoof-mark / Scarred the sear grass."

Etymology

From hoof + mark.

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