Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various gaits of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately, such as the rack.
  • intransitive verb To go at a single-foot.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To move with the single-foot gait; rack. Also single.
  • noun A gait of horses, better known as the rack. See rack.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped.
  • noun An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See single, v. i.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
  • verb go at a rack

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Examples

  • Personally I intend to stay with gaited horses (foxtrotters are my preference but walkers or single-foot horses are just as good) for all kinds of reasons.

    Horse Hunting 2009

  • Personally I intend to stay with gaited horses (foxtrotters are my preference but walkers or single-foot horses are just as good) for all kinds of reasons.

    Horse Hunting 2009

  • All she was able to plant was a little garden that she worked by hand with a single-foot plow and a hoe.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • All she was able to plant was a little garden that she worked by hand with a single-foot plow and a hoe.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Jack nudged his horse to a single-foot and headed back toward Deadwood.

    SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992

  • Spanish horse should; he trotted, he loped, he paced, and went single-foot, greatly to the admiration of the three spectators.

    Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various

  • Women will cease to single-foot and learn to undulate when they walk.

    Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

  • They were gaited animals, with a fast jog-walk and a fine single-foot, small and well-proportioned, with tapering legs and small feet.

    Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

  • When he changed to a single-foot, which, fortunately for me, he often did, I was much less uncomfortable.

    The Moon Maid 1923

  • I have sternly refused to allow mother to ride Wyoming, on the ground that I would not have her make a martyr of herself in the shape of riding a horse with a single-foot gait, which she so openly detests.

    To Ted on a Hunting Trip 1919

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