hoof
noun
the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
hoofless
-
a word derived from
hoof.
Example Sentences
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This left the Brierbrush at peace with none but Molly Cottontail, who could not climb, was hornless, hoofless, and had scarcely any tail at all.
From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
The deer never returned the hoofs to the rabbit, and hoofless the rabbit has remained to this day.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
"The reptiles have left him as hoofless as a beaver!"
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
On her arrival, my preceptor, Mr. Taylor, was immediately sent for, who found her, as I have before stated, with the off fore-foot hoofless.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
