goatsfoot
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editgoatsfoot (uncountable)
- The flowering plant Passiflora sexflora.
- Alternative form of goat's foot
- 2001, Charley F. Eckhardt, Texas Smoke: Muzzle-loaders on the Frontier, Texas Tech University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
- A simple hunting crossbow, cocked by hand or a goatsfoot cocking lever, shooting a light arrow or quarrel no longer than a person's forearm, was about half again as accurate on individual targets as was a longbow.