hoofprint

English

Etymology

hoof +‎ print

Noun

hoofprint (plural hoofprints)

1. The mark of a hoof.
   • 1849, Francis Parkman, The California and Oregon Trail:

     Perhaps, like us, he may journey for a fortnight, and see not so much as the hoof-print of a deer; in the spring, not even a prairie-hen is to be had. Yet, to compensate him for this unlooked-for deficiency of game he will find himself beset with 'warmints' innumerable.

   • 1861, Mayne Reid, The bush-boys; or the history and adventures of a cape farmer and his family in the wild Karoos of Southern Africa:

     There was the round solid hoof of the quagga, and his near congener the dauw; and there was the neat hoofprint of the gemsbok, and the larger track of the eland; and among these Von Bloom did not fail to notice the spoor of the dreaded lion.

   • 2008 May 3, Andy Newman, “On Staten Island, More Deer and Few Solutions”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In five minutes, she pointed out the tracks of at least six deer: does with rounded hoofprints, bucks with big pointy prints the length of a man’s finger, fawns with little prints.

Synonyms

• hoofmark

Anagrams

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