ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cloven-hooved

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Cloven-hooved is an adjective meaning Alternative form of cloven-hoofed.

Meaning

Alternative form of cloven-hoofed.

Example Sentences

Chevre pied. Cloven-hooved, Goat-footed; as Epithite for a Satyr.
The board has short legs in the shape of four cloven-hooved oxen’s feet.
But “horses with uncloven hoof” suggests a cloven-hooved variety, which for a moment puzzles the wit, and therefore distracts.
But a few animals are known to be single-horned and single-hooved, as the Indian ass; and one, to wit the oryx, is single-horned and cloven-hooved.

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