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sin⋅gle-foot

[sing-guhl-foot]
–noun
1. rack 3 (def. 1).
–verb (used without object)
2. (of a horse) to go at a rack.

Origin:
1860–65, Americanism
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sin·gle-foot   (sĭng'gəl-fŏŏt')
n.  A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately; the rack. No longer in technical use.
intr.v.   sin·gle-foot·ed, sin·gle-foot·ing, sin·gle-foots
To go at the single-foot.
sin'gle-foot'er n.
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