singlefootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

singlefoot (uncountable)

1. A horse's gait, a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite simultaneously.
   • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.69:

     A mile further along he passes us, the horse, archnecked, reined back to a swift singlefoot.

関連する語

• single (verb)

動詞

singlefoot (三人称単数 現在形 singlefoots, 現在分詞 singlefooting, 過去形および過去分詞形 singlefooted)

1. (intransitive) To proceed by means of the singlefoot gait.