hoove
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A disease in cattle consisting of inflammation of the rumen by gas, usually caused by eating too much green food.
Archaic; Uncountable
verb
Alternative form of hoof.
Example Sentences
- "In her father’s pasture was a bull and when it stamped and hooved the ground and bellowed below the trees it was a preacher and now the Preacher was a bull."
- "They had left soft ridges where they had hooved the ground up with their snoots and baby hands."
- "[…] I didn’t find it, but came upon a cow moose blind, stinking with heat, moaning, and hooving the black peat with such blood, such fury, the woods broke open, the earth recovered her children, her silences, her poems."
- "white heat red sunfired horses / tails swishing snakes / galloping / we were riders lion / headed hooving the hard ground / dust and cloud dragon and angel"
- "Cows, or something bigger, hoove the ground, pick at it, shovel up the dirt around my foot."
- "A spoonbill stalks its future with primaeval staggers: so, this is Grace? he wonders cutting twine from pulpy bails, the sheep congregating and snorting air that is sharp, shaking glimmers of an indolent sun from burr-bitten wool, hooving the ground."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Synonyms
bloat
bloating
drum belly
meteorism
ruminal bloat
ruminal tympany
ruminal tympanitis
tympanites
tympany
wind dropsy