Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Single-foot \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.)
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.
Source : WordNet®
single-foot
n : a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the
ground separately [syn: {rack}]
v : go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: {rack}]