Hoofs

Word HOOFS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /hufs/

Definitions and meanings of "Hoofs"

What do we mean by hoofs?

The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.

The human foot.

An ungula.

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The word "hoofs" in example sentences

The sound of barking cows and thundering hoofs is the last thing you want to hear. ❋ E. Donnall Thomas Jr. (2005)

And I could tell even now, where there was a sunny bank, and where a group of sun-touched trees; the ring of our horses 'hoofs is in my ear with a thought; and I could almost paint from memory the first view of the camp we went to see. ❋ Unknown (1869)

The oath by the ass’s hoofs is to ridicule the Jew. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At the top there was a pen-and-ink sketch of a horse with a tail of the shape of a pipe and an endless neck, and below his hoofs were the following words, written in an old - fashioned hand: ❋ Unknown (2003)

He talked of the wisdom of his own nation, and told her all about the fits they were so subject to, and how they cured themselves by rubbing their ears with their hind feet, till the blood came, and how their hoofs were a medicine to drive away all kinds of falling sickness, except that occasioned by drinking the strong water that is made of women's tongues and warriors 'hearts [A]. ❋ James Athearn Jones (N/A)

Having said this, if a WA or DP type hunter with more then a few "hoofs" under there belt suggests a certain caliber or bullet for game animal I'm gonna listen to them as giving me saged advice! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once, she whirled and tried to kick him, but usually she strove to strike him with her fore-hoofs, or rushed upon him with open mouth and ears laid back in an effort to crunch his backbone between her teeth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Broncos and buffaloes both have hoofs, so maybe we're talking about the curse of Hoofie. ❋ Michael Conniff (2011)

On a rounded knoll, overlooking the road, he had first heard the galloping hoofs of the horse and the crack of the whip-blows on its body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We were just about to begin on our meagre supper of horse-beans and wild garlic cooked into a stew with a scrap of bullock that must have died of old age, when there was a tinkling of bronze pony bells and the stamp of hoofs without. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was a clashing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and now and again an oath or a sharp cry of command. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Who brought the sickness, Koolau?" demanded Kiloliana, a lean and wiry man with a face so like a laughing faun's that one might expect to see the cloven hoofs under him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or when the nearly naked Mongolian boy wanders into a field of calves, their hoofs dangerously closing in on him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His attention turned to the flurry of hoofs racing down the track. ❋ Elle (2011)

And Barney twinkled forward on his small hoofs, nozzled the open hand, and came closer, nozzling up the arm, nudging Collins's shoulders with his nose, half-rearing as if to get across the ropes and embrace him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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