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 . Seesingle , 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jack nudged his horse to a single-foot and headed back toward Deadwood.
SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992
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Spanish horse should; he trotted, he loped, he paced, and went single-foot, greatly to the admiration of the three spectators.
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Women will cease to single-foot and learn to undulate when they walk.
Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926
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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
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When he changed to a single-foot, which, fortunately for me, he often did, I was much less uncomfortable.
The Moon Maid 1923
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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.
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