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/hʊf/ · noun
The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering..
[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
Get your hooves off me!
He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.
Use hoof when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hoof means The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering..
Common synonyms include boot, foot, leg it, hoof it.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
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