hoof
The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
Other meanings
The human foot.
“Get your hooves off me!”
The heel of a loaf of bread.
A kind of
- animal foot
Related words
- brohoof
- empty-hoofed
- facehoof
- forehoof
- hoofball
- hoofbeat
- hoofbound
- hoofish
- hoofless
- hooflet
- hooflike
- hoofmark
Word history
From Old English "hōf".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “hoof” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.