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. 2000.
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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Single — Sin gle, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single foot; said of a horse. See {Single foot}. [1913 Webster] Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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