Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A curved hook or hooked knife-blade used to remove stones, balls of snow, etc., from the bottom of a horse's hoof.
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Examples
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ALAN clearly puts the invisible hoof-pick on the rail, downstage left.
EQUUS Peter Shaffer 1974
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ALAN clearly puts the invisible hoof-pick on the rail, downstage left.
EQUUS Peter Shaffer 1974
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She also had a peg of ignominy, and three times a day I had to dance perilously round my precious pair with a tentative body-brush and hoof-pick.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896
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