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hoofmark

noun

Etymology

From hoof + mark.

  1. derived from *mórǵs✻
  2. derived from *markō✻
  3. derived from *marku✻
  4. derived from mearc
  5. derived from mark
  6. compounded as hoofmark — “hoof + mark”

Definitions

  1. The imprint made by a hoof

    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.
    • Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA