cloven hoof
the figurative indication of Satan or evil temptation.
- Also called cloven foot .
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How to use cloven hoof in a sentence
Their padded, cloven hooves do minimal damage to trails, making their environmental impact lower than that of other pack animals.
Want to Travel in the Backcountry with Small Children? Rent a Llama. | lwhelan | September 17, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe stranger was shown to a bedroom, and as the servant was pulling off his boots he saw that he had a cloven hoof.
Irish Witchcraft and Demonology | St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) SeymourLet a crisis arise, and you never know who may not surprise and horrify you by showing the cloven hoof.
Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels | Mrs. Charles BryceThe second item in the complaint of the intermountain cities showed the cloven hoof of the transcontinental carriers.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. RipleyMonk saw, or thought he saw, the cloven hoof of the Sectaries.
Monk | Julian Corbett
There was a man with a cloven hoof, but then he was meant for the devil.
The Celebrity at Home | Violet Hunt
British Dictionary definitions for cloven hoof
the divided hoof of a pig, goat, cow, deer, or related animal, which consists of the two middle digits of the foot
the mark or symbol of Satan
Derived forms of cloven hoof
- cloven-hoofed or cloven-footed, adjective
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