[syn: single-foot, rack]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, n.
An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed
pace. See Single, v. i.
[1913 Webster]
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.)
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, v. i.
To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other
quadruped. -- Sin"gle-foot`er, n.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
single-foot
n 1: a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the
ground separately [syn: rack, single-foot]
v 1: go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: single-
foot, rack]