Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease of cattle in which the stomach is inflated with gas, caused generally by eating too much green food. Also
hove . - Same as
hove .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
disease incattle consisting ofinflammation of thestomach bygas , usually caused by eating too much green food.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you can find your arrow and line it up with the hair and hoove prints you can have an educated guess on where the arrow hit.
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Also most deer leave hoove prints in the dirt after being shot.
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Also most deer leave hoove prints in the dirt after being shot.
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If you can find your arrow and line it up with the hair and hoove prints you can have an educated guess on where the arrow hit.
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I feel that Pan has, for better or for worse, made his parting gesture, and it would be-hoove me to do the same.
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Along the way we meet Moist, who can make things slightly damp, and Bad Horse, "Who rules the league with an Iron hoove."
Archive 2008-07-01 Andrew 2008
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Along the way we meet Moist, who can make things slightly damp, and Bad Horse, "Who rules the league with an Iron hoove."
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Andrew 2008
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He remembered that during the previous month his janitor, to whom he had delivered a rather muddled lecture on the "brother-hoove man," had come up next day and, on the basis of what had happened the night before, seated himself in the window seat for a cordial and chatty half-hour.
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Choking is utterly impossible, and I have only had one case of hoove in three years, and that occurred when the mixture had not fermented.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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When cattle are supplied with cut grass, or clover, care should be taken not to give it to them when very wet, for otherwise there is danger of the excessively moist herbage producing the _hoove_.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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