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Definition of Hoof it

1. Verb. Walk. "The children hoof it to the playground"; "Let's hoof it to the disco"

Definition of Hoof it

1. Verb. To walk, especially when as a result of regular transportation being unavailable. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoof It

Literary usage of Hoof it

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... from the natural formation of the hoof, it moves upwards to the coronet or top of the hoof, and forms a round tumour, which afterwards breaks out and ..."

2. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Leonard Pearson (1916)
"... and, plantar cushion, much as a sock covers the human foot, and is itself covered by the horny capsule, or hoof. It differs from the external skin, ..."

3. The Documents of the Hexateuch: Translated and Arranged in Chronological by William Edward Addis (1898)
"... such as chew the cud or of those that part the hoof, the camel because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof; it is unclean for you : 5. and the ..."

4. Ṿayyiḳra = Leviticus by Marcus Moritz Kalisch (1872)
"divide the hoof; it shall be unclean to you; 6. And the hare, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof; it shall be unclean to you; 7. ..."

5. Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United by District Court (Illinois, District Court (Indiana, District Court (Wisconsin, Josiah Hooker Bissell, Circuit Court (7th Circuit, United States (1883)
"... for their shoe, the complainant's Exhibit 1, has no projection beyond ' the wall of the hoof. It seems to me to be in all substantial respects like the ..."

6. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1795)
"... confidence than the hoof. It extends from the toe,to the ... all round to the hoof. It« nie ¡S; to defend the external and internal foles, ..."

7. Veterinary State Board Questions and Answers by Victor Gage Kimball (1917)
"The coronary cushion is the matrix of the wall of the hoof. It is lodged in a ... It envelops the extremity of the digit and is covered by the hoof. It ..."

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