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English Dictionary: single-foot by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
single-foot
n
  1. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
    Synonym(s): rack, single-foot
v
  1. go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: {single- foot}, rack]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, n.
      An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also {single-footed
      pace}. See {Single}, v. i.
  
               Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare,
               distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in
               the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities
               in that of a slow trot.                           --Stillman
                                                                              (The Horse in
                                                                              Motion.)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, v. i.
      To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other
      quadruped. -- {Sin"gle-foot`er}, n.
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