HOOFED

ungulate, ungulated, hoofed, hooved

(adjective) having or resembling hoofs; “horses and other hoofed animals”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

hoofed (not comparable)

Having a hoof or hooves.

Verb

hoofed

simple past tense and past participle of hoof

Source: Wiktionary


Hoofed, a.

Definition: Furnished with hoofs. Grew.

HOOF

Hoof, n.; pl. Hoofs, very rarely Hooves. Etym: [OE. hof, AS. hof; akin to D. hoef, G1huf, OHG. huof, Icel. hofr, Sw. hof, Dan. hov; cf. Russ. kopuito, Skr. çapha. sq. root225.]

1. The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. On burnished hooves his war horse trode. Tennyson.

2. A hoofed animal; a beast. Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind. Ex. x. 26.

3. (Geom.)

Definition: See Ungula.

Hoof, v. i.

1. To walk as cattle. [R.] William Scott.

2. To be on a tramp; to foot. [Slang, U.S.] To hoof it, to foot it.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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