hoof

«hoof» in Mova's school dictionary: the hard part of the foot of animals like horses, cows… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hoof, hooves or hoofs)

meaning for a pupil

A hoof is the hard part of the foot of animals like horses, cows, deer, goats, sheep and pigs. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, hooves are an example of animal adaptation: they are made of keratin, like our fingernails, and help animals run on hard ground. A farrier trims horses' hooves and fits horseshoes. Animals with hooves are called hoofed animals or ungulates. In stories, the sound of hooves tells that horses are coming. Phrases: the clatter of hooves, cloven hooves (split in two, like a cow's).

examples

• The horse's hooves clattered on the road. tree →
• A farrier puts metal shoes on a horse's hooves. tree →
• Cows and sheep have cloven hooves, split into two parts. tree →
• Hooves are made of the same stuff as your fingernails. tree →
• We heard hooves coming up the lane. tree →
• The deer's hoof left a print in the mud. tree →
• A Bull trampled him with his heavy hoofs. tree →

note

Plural: hooves (more common) or hoofs. Like «leaf, leaves» and «wolf, wolves». Trimming a hoof does not hurt the animal, just like cutting nails.

In the corpora

• Over a hundred years ago a horse called Clever Hans seemed to do sums by tapping his hoof.
• A horse has 4 legs, and each leg ends in a hoof, so a horse has 4 hooves.
• A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4 horseshoes.
• And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.
• And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hoof» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.