Sin"gle-foot` (?), n.

An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i.

Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot.
Stillman (The Horse in Motion.)

 

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Sin"gle-foot`, v. i.

To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. -- Sin"gle-foot`er, n.

 

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