hoofbeat

noun

hoofbeat

noun

Etymology From hoof + beat.

1

The sound of a hoof striking the ground.

at the hoof-beats of fate1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

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