English

Noun

hoofmark ‎(plural hoofmarks)

1. The imprint made by a hoof; a hoofprint.
   • 1924, Robinson Jeffers, Tamar, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, 1937, p. 38,

     […] he looked for tracks / On the ridge where he had seen the riders cantering, / And not a bush was broken, not a hoof-mark / Scarred the sear grass.

   • 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage, 2004, p. 130,

     Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks.

Alternative forms

• hoof-mark