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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately;
[syn: rack, single-foot]


VERB (1)

1. go at a rack;
- Example: "the horses single-footed"
[syn: single-foot, rack]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, n. An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i. [1913 Webster] Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot. --Stillman (The Horse in Motion.) [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, v. i. To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. -- Sin"gle-foot`er, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

single-foot n 1: a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately [syn: rack, single-foot] v 1: go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: single- foot, rack]