hind foot

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English

Noun

hind foot (plural hind feet)

Alternative form of hindfoot.
- 1890, Mary Boyle, “Billy and Bully”, in Æsop Redivivus, London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, ; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd; New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Welford, , →OCLC, page 66:
  “Hist! there is a Lion Looking at us.” / “Where?” / “Behind you—don’t look. He thinks that we Cannot See him.” / “My hind foot is lame,” said the Bull. “My corns are Troubling me, I cannot go, so don’t leave me, Billy.”
- 1939, Robert Davis, “The General’s Horse”, in Padre Porko: The Gentlemanly Pig, : Holiday House, →OCLC, page 15:
  With a skillful movement of his left hind foot the Padre kicked dry branches upon the fire.
- 1963, The Gordons [i.e., Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon], chapter 4, in Undercover Cat: The Lighthearted Story of the Cat Who Became an FBI Informant, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 23:
  He sat up on his hind feet and stuck out a paw.

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