单词 | horse-hoof |
释义 | ˈhorse-hoof Also (in sense 2) 5 -howve, 6 -hove. [f. horse n. + hoof.] 1. The hoof of a horse.
1539Bible (Great) Judg. v. 22 Then were the horse hoffes smytten asunder. 1638–48G. Daniel Eclog iii. 273 The true fountaine which The Muses Love..The Horse-hoofe never rais'd [cf. Hippocrene]. 1843Macaulay Lays Anc. Rome, Lake Regillus xxxvii, To listen for the rushing Of horse-hoofs from the east. 1896Black Horse Gaz. Jan. 8/2 Loud thunder of horse hooves, low curtain of dust. 2. The plant Coltsfoot (Tussilago Farfara).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xciii. (Bodl. MS.), Many men clepeþ it Caballina an hors huoue. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 158 b, Tussilago is named..in Englishe Horse houe, or Bullfoote. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xii. 20 It is called..Fole foote, Horse houe, Coltes foote. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Horse-hoof, the colt's-foot, Tussilago farfara. 3. = horse-foot 3 a.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. ii. 40 Horse-hoof-fish. Ibid. 44 By the shore, you find abundance of Shell-fish, called by the English, Horse-hoofs..the shell is thin and brittle, like a Lobsters; with many small Claws. |

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