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hooves

American  
[hoovz, hoovz] / hʊvz, huvz /

noun

  1. a plural of hoof.


hooves British  
/ huːvz /

noun

  1. a plural of hoof

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I glance down at the water, certain that the hooves of the two thousand wild horses galloping through my chest are making ripples in the water.

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But as he had no cooking-skin for making glue, he let Wolf have the hooves straightaway.

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A clatter of hooves and wagon wheels drawing up to the side of the house snapped her attention back to my laundry, and she finished transferring it into her basket.

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I climb in after Aunt Tess and then lean my head against the doorframe, feeling the rhythmic clop of the horses’ hooves down Massachusetts Avenue.

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Too thin for all the weight of her on the small, pointed hooves and she went through and down in a huge spray of shattered ice and water.

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