hoofmark
nounEtymology From hoof + mark.
1
The imprint made by a hoof; a hoofprint.
- […] he looked for tracks / On the ridge where he had seen the riders cantering, / And not a bush was broken, not a hoof-mark / Scarred the sear grass.1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, published 1937, page 38:
- Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks.1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage, published 2004, page 130: