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# hoof

«hoof» in Mova's school dictionary: **the hard part of the foot of animals like horses, cows…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hoof, hooves or hoofs)

### meaning for a pupil

A hoof is the hard part of the foot of animals like horses, cows, deer, goats, sheep and pigs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, hooves are an example of animal adaptation: they are made of keratin, like our fingernails, and help animals run on hard ground. A farrier trims horses' hooves and fits horseshoes. Animals with hooves are called hoofed animals or ungulates. In stories, the sound of hooves tells that horses are coming. Phrases: the clatter of hooves, cloven hooves (split in two, like a cow's).

### examples

- The horse's hooves clattered on the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#x1)
- A farrier puts metal shoes on a horse's hooves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#x2)
- Cows and sheep have cloven hooves, split into two parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#x3)
- Hooves are made of the same stuff as your fingernails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#x4)
- We heard hooves coming up the lane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#x5)
- The deer's hoof left a print in the mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#x6)
- A Bull trampled him with his heavy hoofs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/#x7)

### note

Plural: hooves (more common) or hoofs. Like «leaf, leaves» and «wolf, wolves». Trimming a hoof does not hurt the animal, just like cutting nails.

### In the corpora

- [Over a hundred years ago a horse called Clever Hans seemed to do sums by tapping his hoof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/389-how-scientists-test-animal-minds-the-mirror-test-puzzle-boxes-and-clever-hans/2/)
- [A horse has 4 legs, and each leg ends in a hoof, so a horse has 4 hooves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/206-horseshoes/0/)
- [A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4 horseshoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/206-horseshoes/1/)
- [And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.259/)
- [And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.260/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hoof» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoof/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.