Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In farriery, the hind foot of a horse when the horn cleaves just in the middle of the fore part of the hoof, from the coronet to the shoe.
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Examples
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A moment after Ctesippus himself was struck down by the lance of Philoetius, who mocked him as he fell saying: "There is for the ox-foot which thou didst lately bestow on Odysseus, thou noisy railer!"
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This gift is thy recompense for the ox-foot that thou gavest of late to the divine Odysseus, when he went begging through the house.
Book XXII Homer 1909
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This gift is thy recompense for the ox-foot that thou gavest of late to the divine Odysseus, when he went begging through the house. '
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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But Telemachus struck down Amphimedon, and the herdsman of the kine slew Ctesippus, saying: "Take this, for the ox-foot which thou gavest to our guest."
The Story of the Odyssey Alfred John Church 1870
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