Definitions

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  • noun The mark of a hoof.

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

  • noun a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal

Etymologies

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hoof +‎ print

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Examples

  • We will not cease our campaign of direct action until we have the Vote and the hoofprint is accepted as proof of identity.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • We will not cease our campaign of direct action until we have the Vote and the hoofprint is accepted as proof of identity.

    Politician Wounded in Terror Attack Dungeekin 2009

  • He turns toward home, extends his walk till hind far overreaches fore and every hoofprint is distinct.

    Peaceable Kingdom 2004

  • He turns toward home, extends his walk till hind far overreaches fore and every hoofprint is distinct.

    Peaceable Kingdom 2004

  • As the bulldog descended, his prey — an outsize boar with a wide “three-finger” hoofprint — sensed its imminent demise, and bolted past Clifford and the trailing pack.

    The Boar War 2009

  • The statement was signed 'Ermintrude Guevara, Chief Publicity Bovine, B. S.E' and marked with a hoofprint and cud signature.

    Politician Wounded in Terror Attack Dungeekin 2009

  • The statement was signed 'Ermintrude Guevara, Chief Publicity Bovine, B. S.E' and marked with a hoofprint and cud signature.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • As the bulldog descended, his prey — an outsize boar with a wide “three-finger” hoofprint — sensed its imminent demise, and bolted past Clifford and the trailing pack.

    The Boar War 2009

  • Capen keeps many aged examples of local brick, including one from an 1800 farmhouse in Frederick with a hoofprint impression likely made by a farm animal when bricks were lying out to dry before being fired in a wood kiln.

    Brick facades are sturdy, but keeping them that way requires care 2010

  • But that hasn't stopped the lacto-lobby from insisting that rBST is actually a super-duper eco-friendly way to farm 'cause it lets you wring more milk out of fewer cows, thereby curbing a dairy farmer's carbon hoofprint.

    Kerry Trueman: You Heard It On Oprah: Factory Farms Stink 2008

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