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English
Etymology
From hoof + print.
Noun
hoofprint (plural hoofprints)
- The mark of a hoof.
1849, Francis Parkman, The California and Oregon Trail:Perhaps, like us, he may journey for a fortnight, and see not so much as the hoof-print of a deer; in the spring, not even a prairie-hen is to be had. Yet, to compensate him for this unlooked-for deficiency of game he will find himself beset with 'warmints' innumerable.
1861, Mayne Reid, The bush-boys; or the history and adventures of a cape farmer and his family in the wild Karoos of Southern Africa:There was the round solid hoof of the quagga, and his near congener the dauw; and there was the neat hoofprint of the gemsbok, and the larger track of the eland; and among these Von Bloom did not fail to notice the spoor of the dreaded lion.
2008 May 3, Andy Newman, “On Staten Island, More Deer and Few Solutions”, in New York Times:In five minutes, she pointed out the tracks of at least six deer: does with rounded hoofprints, bucks with big pointy prints the length of a man’s finger, fawns with little prints.
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