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单词 single-foot
释义

single-foot

[ sing-guhl-foot ]
/ ˈsɪŋ gəlˌfʊt /

noun

rack3 (def. 1).

verb (used without object)

(of a horse) to go at a rack.

Origin of single-foot

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Words nearby single-foot

single entry, single-family, single father, single file, single file, in, single-foot, single-hand, single-handed, single-handedly, single-hearted, singlehood
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Example sentences from the Web for single-foot

  • And mixed up in it all we discussed the merits of the fox-trot versus the single-foot.

    Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard
  • And either a rack or single-foot is apt to spoil the square trot; or if you break a horse to trot, you will lose the other gaits.

    Patroclus and Penelope|Theodore Ayrault Dodge
  • The rack soon grows into the single-foot, which only differs from it in being faster, and the latter is substituted for the trot.

    Patroclus and Penelope|Theodore Ayrault Dodge

British Dictionary definitions for single-foot

single-foot

noun

a rapid showy gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately, as in a walk

verb

to move or cause to move at this gait
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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