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Single-foot   /sˈɪŋgəl-fʊt/   Listen
Single-foot

noun
1.
A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately.  Synonym: rack.
verb
1.
Go at a rack.  Synonym: rack.






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"Single-foot" Quotes from Famous Books



... Etheredge. He spoke to me, asked me good-naturedly why I was standing there, and I told him that I was waiting for a dog that I wanted to kill. He turned into his gate, a short distance off, and I stood there. After a while I heard another horse, and I knew his gait—single-foot. It was Stuart. He was singing and he didn't appear to see me until he was almost on me. His horse shied. 'Who is that?' he asked, and I told him. 'And you are going to take back what you said,' I remarked as quietly as I could, 'or I'm going to kill you right ...
— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read

... we find," said Bagheera, trotting with his head low. "It is single-foot" (he meant that there was only one man), "and the weight of the thing has pressed his heel far into ...
— The Second Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling



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