singlefoot
verbEtymology From single + foot.
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To proceed by means of the singlefoot gait.
singlefoot
nounEtymology From single + foot.
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A horse's gait, a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite simultaneously.
- A mile further along he passes us, the horse, archnecked, reined back to a swift singlefoot.1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 69:
- Related terms
- single