single-foot

[ sing-guh l-foo t ]
/ ˈsɪŋ gəlˌfʊt /

noun

rack3(def 1).

verb (used without object)

(of a horse) to go at a rack.

Origin of single-foot

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Words nearby single-foot

single-decker, single-digit, single-end, single-ended, single-family, single-foot, single-hand, single-handed, single-handedly, single-hearted, single-hung

Example sentences from the Web for single-foot

  • And mixed up in it all we discussed the merits of the fox-trot versus the single-foot.

    Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) |Elbert Hubbard

  • And either a rack or single-foot is apt to spoil the square trot; or if you break a horse to trot, you will lose the other gaits.

    Patroclus and Penelope |Theodore Ayrault Dodge

  • The rack soon grows into the single-foot, which only differs from it in being faster, and the latter is substituted for the trot.

    Patroclus and Penelope |Theodore Ayrault Dodge

British Dictionary definitions for single-foot

single-foot

noun

a rapid showy gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately, as in a walk

verb

to move or cause to move at this gait