hoofmark
See also: hoof-mark
English
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edithoofmark (plural hoofmarks)
- The imprint made by a hoof; a hoofprint.
- 1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers[1], Random House, published 1937, page 38:
- […] 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.
- 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage, published 2004, page 130:
- Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks.